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IN THE BEGINNING. 

A Book for the new era. Gives a sketch of 
the creation of the mundane -universe, the begin- 
ning of animal life and the origin and creation of 
man, from the "nucleated cell," under the ocean, 
by progressive evolution to ' the super-animal- 
man, etc. Bead carefully to understand this 
"Book". 

Dedicated to Eighteousness and Truth; Truth 
and Righteousness will set you free from the 
bondage of sin. 

By MRS. EMILY W. MEAD. 



"I, God," I am "that I am," do glorify this 
Book. 

A ' ' Power, ' ' took my hand and wrote the above. 
—"Name." 



In the Beginning 



As I sat one day reading Genesis the passage 
"There was no 'God' before 'Me' and shall be 
none after 'Me' ". I shut my eyes and thought, 
"that looks equivocal." And a spirit voice or 
word, over my head, said, "In the beginning the 
spirit was, and in perfecting 'Form' was pro- 
duced, and the 'Spirit' and the 'Form' were the 
'Perfect', 'Perfect' One." A grand spiritual Be- 
ing, that we call "God". "The celestial trinity". 
"God," made manifest in the 'Son,' the 'proto- 
type' of all forms, the creator of all things; by 
infinite laws — the cosmos, and the spirit, (God, 
immanifest) being co-eternal, contained the pos- 
sibility of all things spiritual and material, under 
conditions and laws. 

One night, (my room was securely locked that 
no one could enter) I woke with a consciousness 
of a spiritual presence, and I saw dimly a 'Spirit- 
ual Being,' who appeared of great 'power,' and a 
vast space was spread out before me, and the Be- 
ing said, "I have searched the universe around 
and there is no 'God' beside Me." There is seven 
universes, three are not yet finished" and— — 

A 'word' said to me, "Bead and write, and be 
strong and fear not, for I am with thee." After 
years of study and research, and teaching, I give 
you the result. I give you a sketch of creation 



6 IN THE BEGINNING 

from the beginning to the end of this Kalpa, when 
all material things will be resolved into their origi- 
nal condition, and a new creation will commence 
on a higher plane.' ' 

The universe as shown to me, and what was told 
to me, by word, by impression and by inspiration. 
A new era has commenced and the earth and the 
people are in a transition state to higher condi- 
tions and the people require a more comprehensive 
knowledge of spiritual things. 

One night as I turned my thoughts away to the 
Supreme Being with an exclamation, "How de- 
graded and poor we are, who live in the dirt. 
And a sensation came to me, like rays of feeling 
and thought; but some Spiritual Being appeared 
to be between me and God. In a moment it 
stepped aside and in the center of the 'universe'. 
A 'face' as bright as the sun, in the midst of a mass 
of golden vapory clouds, a ' Being ' was surround- 
ed, all but the 'Face', and the 'Face' looked at me 
and smiled, till, filled with joy I returned the 
smile; and the 'Supreme Being' communed with 
me in thought, which reached me like rays direct 
from Him to me, and a blessing came with the 
thought, and an unseen 'Power' impressed me, 
that the 'Being' I saw was 'God' and I saw 
fthe 'Divine Light,' that illumines 'heaven', and 
reaches to the earth. But there appeared to be a 
cloud or darkness round the earth in which we live, 
unconscious of the 'Divine Light radiating from 
the Divine mind with blessings and gladness to 
those who will receive them.' " 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 



INTRODUCTION. 

In this volume I have put together scraps of 
knowledge, old and new, as you put together 
scraps to form the figures of a kaleidoscope, and 
when you look into one end of the tube you see a 
beautiful figure, formed by the pieces of broken 
glass, dishes, paper, etc. In the same way I have 
put together scraps of knowledge gleaned from 
various sources: reading, thought, study, inspira- 
tion, etc, etc., and the result is a perfect whole, a 
complete circle, commencing with creation, and 
ending with the dissolution of material things ; re- 
flecting the glories of a grand, glorious, limitless 
heaven, and a boundless, black, dark, limitless, 
hideous hell. 

G. E. S. M. says: "An accurate text of the 
Bible is a crying shame and necessity." I sup- 
pose 'tis impossible to find the entire original text, 
unless it is hid away in the "Vatican", or among 
some obscure tribe of people. In translating, the 
Bible has been modified, but the principles have 
mostly been preserved. By reading most of the 
translated traditions and manuscripts, I find that 
the genesis of all people agree with ours, when we 
set aside symbolism, allegory and superstition. 
The Old Testament is obliged to be a compilation 
of scraps of manuscripts and tradition. Except 
by hieroglyphics and symbolism, 'twas the only 
method of keeping historical facts and "religion." 



8 IN THE BEGINNING 

Cosmogony, creation, science and religion, were 
all kept by symbolism; and the translations make 
a nice bungle of them,, in some cases. When trans- 
posed, we find a counterpart of our genesis in 
nearly all the traditions and old manuscripts of all 
people. Our genesis, and the genesis of all peo- 
ples were derived from the same source, and the 
truth has been transmitted to us from Adam 
down. 

G. R. S. M. says: "The Polychrome Bible gives 
ground to hope great things for the religion of the 
West". As if there could be any difference be- 
tween the religion of the East and the West. Re- 
ligion is like the sun: (The same shines every- 
where). He says: "It will prepare the way for a 
new consideration of the religious problem". Re- 
ligion is not a problem; 'tis a "principle", as firm- 
ly fixed as God himself. 

But I presume that the Polychrome Bible will 
throw some light on what is mysterious to some 
persons. Religious opinions pertain to man, and 
vary according to the superstitions and ignorance 
or knowledge of the people. (Persons properly 
educated in the True Religious Principles, who 
live according to those principles, are free,— as 
Christ and Paul taught them. "The truth sets 
them free". Religion is conservative, and can't 
be changed or encroached upon.) But G-. R. S. M. 
says: "A new theory of religion has to be evolved 
and with it a revision of religion". How, when, 
or by whom will the revision be made ? H. F. Bow- 
ling speaks of Christ's teaching as a "new re- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 9 

ligion". Christ did not teach a new religion; he 
merely lifted the people out of symbolism. The 
religious forms of the Old Testament were typical 
of the New Testament, and the true religion, as 
taught by Christ. Eeligion is not a doctrine ; doc- 
trines may be false, religion never changes. 

The Church, established by Christ, was the ful- 
fillment of the Typical Church led by Moses and 
represented "heaven" on earth. 

G. R. S. M. says: "The traditional face of Christ 
does not resemble a Jew, but does resemble a Hin- 
du". Moses represented God and Aaron Christ. 
The teacher and high priest of Hindus are a cross 
between the Israelite and the Hindu. Therefore, 
they may resemble Christ in face. Christ was not 
a Jew, he was an Israelite, by his mother. Some 
twenty years ago, Christ manifested himself to me 
in a cloud. To me His face was an oblong, oval, 
with clear, fair, ruddy complexion, dark hair and 
small beard ; well formed forehead, rather straight 
eyebrows, large, dark, blue eyes, straight nose, 
with delicate nostrils, a small, fine sensitive mouth 
and chin; and the whole illumined by a smile that 
no one can imitate. 



10 IN THE BEGINNING 

CHAPTER (1). 
Primo-Genesis. 

The first differentiation. of all things. 'The Di- 
vine Trinity \ The germ, from which all proceeds. 

A voice said to me, "In the beginning the Spirit 
was, and in perfecting form was produced, and the 
Spirit and the Form were the perfect, perfect 
'One', 'father-mother-son.' " The Divine Trin- 
ity, the archetypal form of all forms. "Grod" the 
first form. 

The evolution, and co-relation, of the mysteries 
of kesmos,, physical, spiritual, abstract, and con- 
crete, were first recorded in geometrical forms of 
symbology. 

Every true cosmogony was expressed by a cir- 
cle, a point, a triangle and a square. All cosmic 
and religious history was expressed by symbology 
in the beginning. The circle represents the uni- 
verse, and also the "Decad" or circle "Pass-not", 
which contains the ' ' triad ' ' the sacred ' ' four ' ' and 
the "square" within the circle, being the most 
potent of all the magical figures. Thus the spirit 
is one and father-mother-son are three. Thus the 
i triangle' or triad, forms the sacred four, or 
square. It is the most magical figure in symbol 
ogy. Christ also represents the celestial triad or 
trinity. The double triangle symbolizes the celes- 
tial triad and the earthly triad. The circle with 
a point symbolizes the universe with the crown in 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 11 

the center. The great central, spiritual "sun", 
the place of the - ' throne ' \ 

The Hindu philosophy says, "Father, Mother" 
spun a weh, and fastened the upper end to spirit, 
and the lower end to matter as a symbol of the 
universe. The central "vortex" is supposed to be 
the realm of pure spirit, diffused, uncreated, form- 
less; self-existent Divinity, the realm of unmani- 
fested being and the first emanation from the 
realm was motion, caused by thought and motion, 
caused vibrations; from the deific mind, and the 
first vibrations; were dual, Love and Wisdom, the 
foundation of all future greatness in creation. At- 
traction and repulsion are male and female prin- 
ciples, co-equal and co-eternal, and the one primal 
force contains unlimited potentialities. 

' ' Adisanet ' ' signifies ' ' Ancient of days ' ', ' ' Bra- 
ma ' ', the creator. The number ' l ten ' ' signifies the 
"universe", which contains three sacred spheres, 
and seven lower ones. "Svabhavat" is the mystic 
essence in its unity on the highest plane: the "vor- 
tex", the archetypal form whence proceeds the 
creative, formative force. The scintillated rays 
of the creative, formative, central, spirit-sun, pass 
through the material central sun, and carry the 
most sublimated rays of matter to form centers of 
suns and systems and spheres. Thus, the focal- 
ized rays from the great, central, spiritual and ma- 
terial suns, formed the first circle of sun outside of 
the sacred circle "pass-not". Then the second 
circle was formed; then the third; then the fourth; 
then the fifth; then the sixth, and it is said there is 



12 IN THE BEGINNING 

a seventh circle forming ontside of that. Our solar 
system is situated in the fifth circle of suns, in a 
small wheel or circle of suns called the "milky- 
way". A circle of suns is composed of many 
"milky ways" or small circles. When the polar- 
ized mass, composing our solar system commenced 
to rotate and form axes and poles, after a long pe- 
riod of time, the fiery mass, feeding the centripetal 
and centrifugal forces of the center, commenced 
to rotate on its axis ; at first very eccentric, but as 
the earth become more solid, under the influence 
of great heat, they took their places nearer the 
sun, each one according to its affinity and density, 
After millions of years of storm and tempest and 
volcanic action our earth was formed. But it was 
buried in an ocean of boiling water and vapor, 
that extended many miles, and the moon being a 
small mass of the same materials thrown off from 
the earth, by the rotary motion, formed a small 
globe, but, being too small to act independently, it 
revolves round the earth as its center, and axis, 
keeping one side to the earth. The sun has two 
motions, one on its axis and one round a great 
center, and in a long period of time, our astral sys- 
tem, including our solar system, revolves round 
the great central sun. The sun's center is a mass 
of liquid fire, evolving heat, light and electricity, 
and its atmosphere is composed of strata of ele- 
mental gases. — Genesis. 

After millions of years of development, the 
earth was cool enough to produce insect and ani- 
mal life, as I have explained; at first, under water. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 13 

There was a kind of fish called the "man-fish" 
(something like the seal) from which the man ani- 
mal was developed, at first, amphibians, very large 
and imperfect. From them (by progressive de- 
velopment) man was perfected, as I have ex- 
plained. There were many millions of various 
types. After millions of years of evolution of 
the "sperm-a-to-zoa" through the animal, a 
higher type of organization was formed, called 
"Adam", and from that small tribe was 
selected a pair, male and female, of whom was 
born a pair called "Eve" (the perfect) and they 
are the ones "made in the image and likeness of 
God." 

The cause of all material bodies is in the gener- 
ative, vital life of the universal father and mother. 
The organization of the soul is an effect of the 
physical body and spirit. 

As the physical body was derived from the ante- 
human ovum, which was impregnated with a su- 
per-animal principle within the matrix of the ma- 
tured animal female of the approximate type. The 
human foetus holds the reproductive principle, 
which principle, by the universal, divine, procrea- 
tive force" first organized the body within the ma- 
terial nature, and the germ of the soul is in the 
egg or foetus but the human soul can not be prop- 
erly organized without the two physical brains, 
and the two "spirit-vitalizing" influences of both 
parents, which takes place at conception. (Unless 
the "germ-soul pre-exists in the foetus or egg, the 
immortal spirit can not quicken or impregnate it 



14 IN THE BEGINNING 

with immortality".) Tlie ever-present spirit of 
God acts upon the human spirit as the sun does 
upon the physical and vegetable life. 

The ' ' soul-germ ' ' is impregnated in the ' ' spirit- 
brain ' ' of the foetus by the parents, who transmit 
the physical and intellectual also; and under 
proper circumstances the immortal individual 
commences life at conception. But without the 
spirit-brain there is no soul-germ and no immor- 
tality as a being. The physical man at death de- 
composes and enters into the mass of cosmical sub- 
stances to form new or other combinations. 
F'ohat or electricity is the life of the vegetable 
world. Animal life is a step higher, still it is 
warmed into life by the ever-acting fo 'hat. 

The first twelve weeks of foetal growth is devot- 
ed to nervo-vital formation; the next two months 
the dual brain organism is in process of elabora- 
tion, and the following eight weeks organize and 
mature the soul or spirit-brain, so that near the 
seventh month of foetal configuration the immor- 
tal lifts the mentality far above the animal king- 
dom if the mental and spiritual predominate in 
the true human. 

There are three stages of growth in the foetus, 
the first, or masculine, is of all spiritual essences as 
they exist in nature below man ; next, the negative, 
spiritual forces on the feminine side, co-extensive 
and comprehensive with the positive forces, and 
the circle is complete in the spiritual body. In the 
course of this effort of nature, the physical body 
is also eliminated ; and the 1 1 physical, mental, spir- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 15 

itual" being is completed; the positive and nega- 
tive forces are married in one individual if the 
foetus possesses the spirit-brain or (spheno lobe- 
brain). 

From this oneness comes the unfoldment of the 
' ' spirit-germ ' \ The positive organization with its 
physical investiture, acts on the negative side of 
the spiritual organization with its physical inves- 
titure, thus depositing and unfolding the spirit- 
germ in soul substance; and the negative side, re- 
acting, unfolds the organized, "immortal spirit," 
which is indestructible. In the justly or harmoni- 
ously formed foetus, the individual is fixed a few 
weeks before birth. The form and proportion of 
the brain determines the quality of mind of the 
individual. The brain contains and eliminates 
mind. The spirit as an entity begins to exist at 
conception, as I have explained; but if not suffi- 
ciently developed becomes extinct. The whole use 
of organism in nature is to eliminate and form the 
spirit body of man. The spirit brain and faculties 
form the key-stone to the perfect arch of man's 
interior cerebral organism, which is indestructible, 
as I have explained. The physical body is a fac- 
tory in which to form the spirit body ; which holds 
the golden soul, the sacred, the divine. ("Love 
and wisdom") or (spheno lobe-brain). 

Old writers speak of the "beautiful face". One 
day as I sat thinking of the greatness of God, in a 
moment a large, beautiful face, smiling and radi- 
ant and dazzling with the most brilliant light, 
flashed before me. It appeared to be in the center 



16 IN THE BEGINNING 

of the universe; the most dazzling light radiated 
from the "face". Yet very near, and I thought 
"can 'God' photograph himself at or to long dis- 
tances by the Spirit?" 

In this chapter I give a description of "primo- 
genesis". "Primo, primus, first, the first form". 
The great "archetypal", the celestial "trinity", 
the " One ' ', the ' ' Two ' ', the < ''Three ' ', the < < Four ' ', 
the celestial ' ' Crown " or " Heaven ' \ I have told 
you of the seven circles of suns. The earth-bear- 
ing suns are the most remote from the centre 
sun, have told you of the origin of man and his 
fall. 

Madam Blavatsky says in Vol. 1, page 216, "that 
man was created with human affections and high 
aspirations from which state he fell into the brute 
and savage, is diametrically opposed to Eastern 
teachings. The ancient book of D-Zan, and all 
the ancient traditions and manuscripts with the 
Genesis in our Bible and the Mormon Bible, etc., 
says ("that man was created on a high spiritual 
plane and fell to the animal plane;) as I have ex- 
plained. Old tradition speaks of the "fall of the 
angels". Man, spiritually gifted, was as the 
angels, having immortality. But by the fall he be- 
came mortal. He fell from immortality or heaven, 
to hell or spiritual death. That was the tradition 
of the "fall" of the angels. Many of the translat- 
ors and commentators, not understanding the alle- 
gories and symbolism, mislead the people in re- 
gard to circumstances and dates. 

M. B. in her writings speaks of a book so old 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 17 

that no one knows who wrote it. Old writings 
were not dated or if they were, moderns do not un- 
derstand the figures. The book she speaks of is 
small and written in ' i Sen-Zar ' \ Tradition says, 
" It was taken down in the secret sacerdotal 
tongue, from the words of divine beings who dic- 
tated it to the ' ' Sons of Light ' ', in Central Asia, at 
the very beginning of our fifth race. M. B. says, 
"No one knows who wrote it." Now let us see if 
we can not find out who wrote it. 

The secret, sacerdotal tongue was known to the 
priesthood. Moses was teacher and leader of the 
priesthood and people. "From the words of di- 
vine beings to the sons of light" — Moses and Israel 
were in central Asia and our Bible says, "Moses 
wrote the words of the Lord, dictated to him". 
Israel were called "Sons of Light", and as Moses 
and Israel were some time in central Asia, and 
possessed the "secret, sacred language" and sym- 
bolism, and Moses had a knowledge of letters and 
papyra, it is evident that he wrote the book. M. 
B. says of the genesis of nearly all people after the 
flood, ' l that it was derived from Moses ' teaching. ' r 
I have explained them all and they reflect the same 
"genesis and religion". We have followed man 
down till the degeneracy of Israel, who, like the 
first race, crossed with inferior races and fell. They 
also committed the "evening sacrifice" by the 
"death of Christ", and the slaughter of thousands 
that followed His teachings, as "Cain committed 
the morning sacrifice by the death of Abel and his 
tribe". 



18 IN THE BEGINNING 



Some will say " Abel had no tribe", but seers 
and tradition say ' ' that he had ' \ 

I have explained primogensis, cosmogenesis and 
the genesis of man. It is not necessary for all per- 
sons to understand symbology if they have a true 
interpretation of it. I have explained enough to 
show you the true method of " creation, genesis, 
heaven, hell, the true religion", etc., and I will 
show you something of symbolism. In primitive 
symbolism, the circle represents space. Tims 
' ' space ". ( " potential space ' ' — third stage, ) di- 
ameter — and motion). The horizontal diameter 
crossed by a vertical one becomes a mundane cross 
thus — a. sign that by the cross of the second and 
third races, humanity would be crossed' with a 
curse". That is, "the crossed race would be a 
' curse ' to mankind ' \ The cross without the circle 
is the sign that the fall of man was accomplished 
and a fourth race commenced of the cross, thus — ). 
The "golden egg" signifies the great central, spir- 
itual ' ' sun ' \ The ' ' triangle ' ' represents the ' l ce- 
lestial : trinity", and the double triangle repre- 
sents the junction of spirit and matter, in Christ, 
who represents the "celestial Trinity"— God on 
earth. Solomon used a seal in the form of a 
double triangle. "Christ" represented "God" on 
the earth. 

One writer says, "If God is an 'objective being', 
how can he be omnipresent? By the omnipresent 
spirit, which pervades all space, and acts as (tele- 
graph wires by which God can act upon and com- 
mune with the entire universe). By the spirit, 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 19 

God knows every man, his deeds and thoughts, 
etc. The hnman mind can not conceive of infinity 
or eternity. But mind is seeking its equilibrium 
and gravitating to the sphere that is attractive to 
it. If it seeks good to heaven, and if it seeks evil 
to hell. Until an eternity is accomplished by im- 
mutable laws originally given there will be cre- 
ated new worlds of supreme excellence and exal- 
tation, and high states of excellence and perfec- 
tion, until every particle composing all suns and 
systems of suns and worlds become the essence of 
vegetable and animal existence and the latter 
passes to spiritual essence and all things arrive at 
an exalted state of spiritual and celestial perfec- 
tion, and all matter material passes through the 
multifarious forms and stages of existence, and be 
resolved into the unparticled state, and ascend to 
associate with higher and more glorious spheres 
of spiritual combinations. Then the great posi- 
tive mind will be positive to all things and 
the great negative formed by the perfection 
of all tilings will be negative material. 
Then deity and spirit only, will be ex- 
isting. The negative will be perfect in affection, 
and pure as space, but without knowledge. Thus, 
the great negative, the ultimate of all material 
things will be negative to the great "positive 
mind". All material things will become a 
mass of spiritualized substances and a new crea- 
tion will commence. 

Before this sublime and glorious end, all the 
labyrinths of finitude will be occupied by systems 



20 IN THE BEGINNING 

of vast magnitude. And after vegetable and ani- 
mal has been disseminated through all systems as 
agents of refinement to higher existences, and all 
motion has become so perfect as to result in sen- 
sation and all elements attract and associate with 
each other, and worlds have become too rarefied to 
form dense bodies, and gravitate to higher spheres 
and when all things have arrived at this state of 
perfection, then will be accomplished the end an- 
ticipated. I was given a glance of the creative 
motive force of creation. 

Then all matter will be resolved into one glor- 
ious sun. Then it will roll into space, successive- 
ly, a corresponding, yet more perfect universalum. 
God's will, being the executive, unspeakably grand 
and glorious is the end contemplated. (The de- 
sign is manifest, that the whole may, by virtue 
of inherent attributes, power and motion, ultimate, 
a substance, a principle, so refined that it may as- 
sociate with the celestial forms and spheres). 

A knowledge of those things will throw a bright- 
ness upon the mind, above the brightness of all 
earth. We should be governed by the most per- 
fect principles of truth and justice. Then we would 
receive influences of Divine Law, the perfection of 
goodness and truth. 

(Before this great time, and the commencement 
of another creation, the righteous will have passed 
through the spirit spheres, beyond the line, "Pass- 
not". I will speak of the evil in another place.) 

I have explained that the great central, spiritual 
sun developed the great central material sun, and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 21 

they developed the systems of suns, etc. Now, I 
will give yon a sketch of the spirit-spheres and 
heaven, etc. 

The earth is in the first sphere or plane. The 
second sphere is above the earth, and is enveloped 
in resplendent brilliancy. It is divided into three 
societies. The first society is in darkness and 
gloom; the second society is in the plane of effects; 
the third circle is exceedingly luminous, within 
unfolded spiritual pQwers. They behold the vast 
landscapes of the spirit home. They are too 
beautiful to be comprehended on earth, on the ex- 
tended and diversified fields. The flowers and 
foliage are of the most variegated colors, and frag- 
rance ascends perpetually from those vast planes, 
giving brilliancy and life to the atmosphere. Riv- 
ers of placid waters flow through those vast plains 
and gardens. Waters of translucent brilliancy, 
reflecting the azure heavens and celestial scenery 
above them. In the enchanting groves are repos- 
ing those who love wisdom and divine teaching. 

Each society has mansions, according to their 
degree. The first are in darkness and gloom. 
Those of the third society are too vast and elegant 
to describe. They are too perfect and magnificent 
to be understood on earth; purity and holiness per- 
vades this sphere. Music floats along the atmos- 
phere into the senses, as the fragrance of flowers. 
Every labyrinth of the spirit-land is governed by 
order and heavenly harmony or law. There is a 
glory of holiness and happiness, that pervades 



22 IN THE BEGINNING 

and quickens into life, the spirit-home, that defies 
expression. 

As there are millions of humans born on the 
earth in a minute of time, so there are millions in- 
troduced into the first sphere and an equal num- 
ber pass from the second to the third sphere in the 
same length of time. 

The third sphere is celestial. It is impossible 
to describe the delight of the spirit, which lies 
down to be quickened into life. In the first circle 
of the third sphere are also three societies, which 
correspond to perfect love, perfect wisdom and 
celestial purity. Their love is. so pure that it 
radiates from their countenances, and a halo of 
purity as of electric fire surrounds them, and the 
third society radiates a light more brilliant than 
the sun. They are guardian angels to those below 
them. The valleys and rivers of the third sphere 
are sublime, above description. 

The rivers seem to sparkle and play with the 
atmosphere and reflect the unspeakable grandeur 
of the celestial heaven. "In -our Father's house 
are many mansions, illumined by divine love. 
Heaven is lighted by divine love." The stately 
palms and beautiful gardens, abounding in luxur- 
iant creations of the spirit-home, are the impres- 
sions of worlds on this "Divine Book" and give 
instructions to the inhabitants. They walk in the 
gardens of celestial love. We have only entered 
the vestibule of the great temple of divine love. 

In the fourth sphere, everything is still more 
lovely. Colors of every conceivable description 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 23 

surround their local habitations; every sphere 
grows more lovely and beautiful, indicating a 
spiritual progression, and that they are wending 
their way up to the (throne and immortality.) 

The first society in the fourth sphere is almost 
infinite in numbers; and from them flows love, 
brighter than the brightest crystal. Its reflections 
clothe lower societies as with a garment, pure as 
the jewels that adorn the crown of the "Lord of 
Lords". 

In the fourth sphere are streams, valleys, plains, 
fountains and groves, that transcend all descrip- 
tion of the grand and beautiful, and the inhabi- 
tants are of the most exquisite purity and loveli- 
ness, and they are also wending their way up to the 
City of the "Living God". "They call all to come, 
and go with them to the fount of purity and love 
on high. ' ' 

The atmosphere of this spirit-home is rainbowed 
and clothed with resplendent brightness, reflecting 
all things below it, and when the inhabitants are 
ready to enter a higher sphere, they repose a mo- 
ment in silence and awaken in the fifth sphere. 
Language is inadequate to describe the fifth 
sphere. An exultation ascends from each society, 
forming a halo more brilliant than the sun. The 
scenery is of redoubled grandeur and holiness, and 
the spiritual beings here are still more lovely and 
attractive. This sphere is the ultimate of all beau- 
ty and the crown of loveliness and purity. Count- 
less millions dwell in each sphere, yet creation has 
only just begun. Here are the "Fields of Para- 



24 IN THE BEGINNING 

dise" and the " House of many mansions". In 
this sphere is combined all the beauties of earth 
and heaven. Here the angels and spirits rejoice 
and give thanks, From this sphere can be seen 
the great spiritual sun, which illumines the whole 
spiritual universe. The spiritual spheres are allied 
to the spiritual sun, and the natural universe ap- 
proaches the material sun. Thus we approach the 
"throne of -God", 

Here I will describe a spirit-birth as seen by a 
seer: 

"As the man ceased to breathe the spirit Aura 
swiftly ascended to a height above the ceiling and 
hovered about the house. It appeared like a throb- 
bing ball the size of an orange, but it expanded 
rapidly. Its attraction was downward by means 
of a line of golden light, to all parts of the earthly 
form. The spirit head was first formed. Sudden- 
ly, several celestial persons approached and super- 
intended the birth of the spirit-body, which con- 
tinued to acquire compactness from the eternal 
sea. It was like a young, beautiful child, and was 
carried to the spirit-home by the angel friends." 
From what I have learned all spirits are not born 
with beautiful bodies. They are evil. They have 
not lived in harmony with the ever-present spirit 
of righteousness, and Christ says, "Sin against the 
Holy Spirit is never forgiven ' \ 

Now, I have explained creation, the universe, the 
spheres that lead to heaven, as much as man can 
understand it while on the earth plane, and I have 
described a spirit-birth. In another place I will 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 25 

show you more of the condition of spirits; now, I 
will show you a chart figurative of heaven. (On 
page 147). 

The letter "G" is in the center, denotes the 
throne and the great central spiritual sun; "C" 
denotes the region called the "Star of light and 
beauty" and is typically described as "beneath" 
the Throne of God. It signifies the vast celestial 
realms of unknown extent, the impenetrable, the 
central sun of being is summed up in the grand 
solvent name "GOD". The region "C" signifies 
the realm of earth's risen martyrs and saviors, 
called "Christs". This sphere is divided into 
"realms" and called "heaven", with thrones, 
principalities, dominions, powers, etc. Thus we 
see that heaven is divided into realms, suited to 
the merits and degrees of peoples. The superior 
races will not occupy the same realms as the in- 
ferior races. There will be degrees of honor and 
station and occupation. No person can understand 
heaven while on the earth-plane. 

The letter "D" on the chart is the great, living, 
material sun, supposed to correspond to the 
"apex" of the great central-spirited sun, beneath 
it, a material source and centre, whence 
issue forth the rays of material light that 
radiates through suns, systems, planets 
and all material bodies in space, and 
carries the more sublimated rays of the great 
"spiritual sun". It is signified by the suns and 
rays E. K. L. M. The semi-circle between P and M 
represents a focalized tone of celestial light, ema- 



26 IN THE BEGINNING 

nating from the spiritual sun and generating- the 
physical, central, material sun of the universe, 
which become a combination of ethereal ized and 
materialized elements, from which the life centers 
of spirit and matter flows to form the universe, 
as I have explained. The crosses on one side rep- 
resent Christ's throne called "heaven". 

Below the throne are seven spheres, representing 
the "Bottomless Pit" or "Hell". 

The glorious revelations in this chapter are 
almost above the comprehension of man. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 

DIAGRAM. 



27 



The following diagram was given by a boy 15 
years old, a "clairvoyant". The letter "G" typi- 
fies the central "Sun of Being", summed up in 




the grand solvent name "God". The great cen- 
tral, spiritual sun. The place of the throne. (I 



28 IN THE BEGINNING 

have seen a grand, glorious Being on the Throne). 
D is the great material snn corresponding to the 
apex of the spiritual sun. A material source and 
center whence issue rays of light, material light, 
which radiate through suns, systems, and all ma- 
terial bodies in space, carrying the sublimated 
rays of the great spirit sun signified by the rays 
E, K, L, M, and the five suns. The semicircle be- 
tween P and N is a focalized zone of celestial light 
emanating from the spiritual sun and generating 
the physical central material sun of the universe, 
which becomes a combination of etherealized and 
materialized elements from which the life centers 
of spirit and matter flows out. The region called 
the star of light and beauty is typically beneath 
the throne of God and signifies the vast celestial 
realms of unknown and illimitable extent. C signi- 
fies the realms of earth's risen martyrs, saved and 
exalted ones, called Christ, is divided into realms, 
called heaven, with thrones, principalities, do- 
minions, powers, etc. 

The three crosses on the right hand of the cen- 
tral sun signifies the throne of Christ. The cen- 
tral one is more elevated than the others and sur- 
mounted by six spears, eternal emblems of His cru- 
cifixion by man. The star of light and beauty is 
the vast realms of heaven. 

Far below the celestial realms is represented 
"The Pit or Hell". 

This chart was given for the benefit of unbe- 
lieving man. 

The grand spiritual sun and corresponding 



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£* t o4~^ 0~^ C*~-<1*— (/ft /p^.-0/L^— 



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A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 29 

physical sun are mystically related on the conso- 
ciative principles of soul and body and both cen- 
tralizing all the forces of being and sending out in 
radiative streams of eternal life through firma- 
ments, spheres, and worlds and spirit spheres. 
All sustained in the illimitable gravitating arms 
of the eternal sun of life whom we worship as 
God. There was much writing descriptive of the 
rainbowed semi-circes and circles of suns over 
and around the throne that was not understood 
by the clairvoyant. 



CHAPTER (2). 
Cosmo-Genesis. 

In the beginning the universe was filled with in- 
candescent cosmical matter, containing the possi- 
bility of all things. All forms, forces and sub- 
stances, minerals, vegetables, animals and man 
were contained in the mass. Evolution was em- 
bodied in the first law of creation. It does not 
antagonize, but is in itself a divine revelation and 
explains the origin of man not only from the low- 
er animal life, but as derived from the primordial 
substances by evolution. 

In the beginning the universe was one unbound- 
ed ocean of liquid fire, an eternity of motion, one 
eternal sun, without beginning and without end, 
one infinite circle. Matter and power were in- 



30 IN THE BEGINNING 

sphered as a whole though separate, containing the 
power and material to produce all things. Matter 
and motion are co-eternal and the great material 
sun of liquid fire is many times hotter than any 
fire that we know of. The great original mass 
contained the embryo of its own greatness and 
perfection. The elements then developed were 
light, heat and power. In the great vortex was 
the great positive mind, God. The principles de- 
veloped were eternal motion, mind, matter and 
spirit were co-eternal. Matter contained the ele- 
ments of all things, and the whole was flaming 
with eternal heat; light was an effect. The terra 
and terminus were contained in an ocean of un- 
particled substances. An eternal system of heav- 
ens was produced, which was the foundation of all 
terrestrial and corporeal things, yet developing 
that which is -celestial and heavenly. 

The first form material was angular. Progres- 
sion of the angular produced the circular, this pro- 
duced the angular and rectangular plane and a 
continuation of the angular to the circular, was a 
perpetually progressive form, ascending toward 
the spiral and this developed the diameter, axes 
and poles, containing the perpetual angular, and 
progressed to a still higher form, the vortic and 
celestial. This vortex of pure intelligence was 
first cause eternal (the spirit immortal). Mo- 
tion was second, or an effect, and creation was 
third or ultimate. 

Thus, in the beginning God created the heavens, 
as I have explained, then the universe of universe, 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 31 

then animals, then man. God is the positive, ac- 
tive and creative power, and matter is negative 
until acted upon by the laws and will of God. 

The combination first repulsed from or perfect- 
ed by the center power formed a sun so vast that 
man can not imagine its size and this great cen- 
tral material sun formed similar suns of smaller 
size, an index of an eternity of suns, having sub- 
ordinate suns and satellites, revolving in order 
round them and all round the great central sun 
that produced them. 

This eternal establishment, was the first system 
of concentric circles of suns. Thus an incompre- 
hensible number of suns formed the first great 
ring of converging formations, and after, millions 
of years. A second circle of suns was formed at a 
great distance farther outside of those and after 
another immense period of time a third circle of 
suns was formed. In the incandescent atmos- 
phere outside of the second, and a fourth was 
formed farther outside, and a fifth was formed 
still farther out, and in the order of progression, 
a sixth circle of suns was evolved, and each circle 
is composed of astral systems, similar to our milky 
way. 

All processes in nature compromise and har- 
monize under the law of progressive evolution. 
Centripetal and centrifugal forces, cohesion and 
disruption, attraction and repulsion. The inher- 
ent co-relation of matter and force. The genesis 
and phenomena of all life is governed by the law 
of evolution. Progression is the central idea in 



32 IN THE BEGINNING 

evolution. It recognizes the fact that the individ- 
ual is, by the adjustment of two sets of factors. 
(The personality of man is the result of inherited 
and acquired knowledge and progressive laws. 
Evolution expands and elevates to higher condi- 
tions or planes. It pushes to higher types and 
forms of life, from the lowest to the highest until 
the celestial is reached. The lower animals are 
fragmentary types, man is the ultimate.) 

Still the center of all those great systems is a 
magnificent and glorious sun, an exhaustless foun- 
tain of materials, round which all the suns and 
systems of suns revolve. It is an everlasting 
germ, containing the possibility of all things. 

Theosophists say, "In the beginning there was 
but one substance". They mistake. In the be- 
ginning, all substances were combined, forming a 
sun that filled the universe, and by progressive 
motion, the elements were separated into forms as 
I have explained. Our solar system is on the in- 
side of the small circle of suns, called the "milky 
way", and revolves with it, round a vast circle, 
and all together round the great "central sun". 
Material sun. 

The human mind can not conceive of infinity, 
but mind is seeking its equilibrium, and is gravi- 
tating to the sphere that is attractive to it. If it 
seeks purity and perfection, it will gravitate to 
and find perfection, but if it seeks vice and evil, 
it will gravitate to that which is evil and attrac- 
tive to it. 

The great eternal elements first developed by 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 33 

the great center of the universe were heat, light 
and electricity. Electricity pervades every sub- 
stance. Every sun in the fifth circle is accom- 
panied by a system of worlds, governed by im- 
mutable laws originally given, and new worlds of 
superior excellence and exalted states of perfec- 
tion will be created or formed until every particle 
composing every sun and system of suns and 
worlds become the essence of animal and vege- 
table existence and pass to an exalted state of 
spiritual and celestial perfection. Thus all mat- 
ter will pass through the multifarious forms and 
stages of existence, and ultimately be resolved in- 
to the unparticled state and ascend to associate 
with higher and more glorious spheres of spiritual 
combinations. Then the great positive mind will 
be positive to all things else in being. 

Then deity and spirit will be existing only, and 
the last of all things will be negative in the great 
sphere of the divine mind and eminently perfect. 
In knowledge it will be negative, but in affection 
pure as the worlds in space. Thus the ultimate 
of all material things will be negative to the 
great positive mind and between the two will ema- 
nate new worlds an epoch of a new beginning. 

Before that sublime and glorious end will be 
consummated all the labyrinths of finitude will be 
occupied by systems of worlds of vast magnitude, 
and after animal and vegetable existences shall 
have disseminated through each system, as agents 
of refinement and transferred all things below 
them to higher existences, and all motion has be- 



34 IN THE BEGINNING 

come so perfect as to result in sensation and all 
elements attract and associate with each other, 
and all worlds have become too rarefied to form 
dense bodies, and shall gravitate to higher 
spheres, and when all things have arrived at this 
state of exaltation, then will be accomplished the 
great and glorious work end contemplated. The 
principles of spiritual life, in its magnitude is be- 
yond the grasp of all minds except that of the 
great actuater. 

As I told you in the beginning, the universe was 
filled with incandescent, primordial substances, 
forming one vast sun, from which was created or 
formed six circles of suns and systems of suns, ac- 
companied by world and satellites; our earth is 
in the fifth circle of suns, situated in the inner side 
of one of the small circles of suns, that compose 
the " milky way". 

After millions of years, the atmosphere of our 
earth separated from the ocean and hung round 
the earth in dense clouds and the earth was cov- 
ered miles deep in a boiling ocean, and Genesis 
says, ' ' Darkness was upon the face of the deep. ' ' 
A certain very bright person asked a short time 
ago, "How could darkness be on the deep and not 
on the land?" As I told you, the land or rock 
surface was buried miles deep under the ocean, 
and the ocean was surrounded by clouds of hot va- 
por to a great distance and mingling with the 
surging waves of the ocean. No sun rays could 
penetrate the dense clouds for many years and 
darkness was on the deep. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 35 

After millions of years, the earth's crust be- 
came cool and solid enough to allow the ocean to 
settle on the surface, still for many years the ocean 
was boiling hot, and thunder and lightning and 
storm and tempest rent the elements of the at- 
mosphere. And Genesis says, "God divided the 
waters from the waters and let the dry land ap- 
pear". 

Xow as the earth is buried in an ocean of boil- 
ing water, how will we get dry land? As the 
earth's crust hardened, great, volcanic action com- 
menced to split the crust of the earth, and throw 
up mountain ranges, by which the waters were 
divided, and we have dry land in the form of 
islands, and yet for a long time no vegetable or 
animal life could exist on the hot surface. By 
the great heat granite rocks were formed as the 
basic foundation. Xow we have no vegetable or 
animal life, and it will require a long period of 
time, or day, to produce soil and vegetable and 
animal life. 

Genesis in our Bible divides the time required 
to form the earth, into six days. In the old times 
the term "day" represented any period of time. 
The days spoken of in Genesis comprise millions 
of our years, but as Genesis was rewritten by the 
Jews, they used the term "evening and morning" 
as one day, and by doing so, caused great misun- 
derstanding, as most people suppose that every 
word in the Bible is the "word" of God. But re- 
cent revelations and manuscripts found in India 



36 IN THE BEGINNING 

and other sources confirm what I tell you, though 
I wrote it before reading them. Genesis. 

At the time I speak of the land and water were 
not formed as they are now. The land was more 
level and the ocean covered more surface and was 
not so deep as it is now. But substances settled 
in the ocean and formed beds of mucous and on 
the land formed soil, in which mosses and lichens 
commenced to grow, until large forests shaded 
the earth. Meantime the beds of mucous in the 
ocean were pregnant with animal life, (by spon- 
taneity and "cell" formation). At first, small 
insects, succeeded by larger and more perfect ones 
until animals resembling man stepped out of the 
ocean, like the frog at first, ' ' amphibious ' '. From 
them man was developed. Everything in nature 
is produced by positive and negative or male and 
female laws. Matter contains all forms and 
forces. In the vast beds of gelatinous, primordial, 
brainlike substances in the bottom of the sea, was 
contained all organisms — all the vitalizing es- 
sences and principles found in animals and man. 
All matter in the universe is permeated with the 
laws of life and progressive development by spon- 
taneous impregnation under certain conditions 
governed by infinite laws. 

The particles forming the beds of brain-like sub- 
stances under the ocean, at first chaotic, gradually 
coalesced and formed a submarine jelly-like sub- 
stance in which to form or make a first physical 
manifestation on this earth. At first only a single 
motion was visible in the mass, which began at 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 37 

the center and moved spirally out to the surface; 
it was the negative or female force. The opera- 
tion of the spirit of mother nature by spontaneous 
impregnation. The second motion was dual or 
compound; contractive and expansive, from the 
center and back, establishing a principle of circu- 
lation, prophetic of veins and arteries, also illus- 
trating the legitimate male and female laws. 
Nothing in nature is illegitimate, except by pro- 
hibition, as all tilings were formed by God's laws, 
and the first insect or animal-life was formed un- 
der water, in beds of brain-like substances by the 
motive power of God's laws and nature, and when 
the compound motion I spoke of was established, 
corrugated masses and globular cells were formed 
in the masses, and in those cells embryonic eggs 
were formed, and the first insect and animal life 
were polyganian and cotyledonous; that is, the 
first forms of life were formed produced by the 
motive force and nature, and being formed with 
reproductive organs they were parents to success 
sive generations. 

Thus you see that we do not contradict science, 
evolution or genesis, which says, ■ ' Let the waters 
bring forth abundantly". I have shown you that 
man was formed of the earth substances. But the 
first model was a rude specimen, from which to 
evolve the perfect man. There was a variety of 
types and half-types. Of the ante-human types 
there were many hundreds of millions. Eecent 
revelations say, "that three or four hundred mil- 
lions ascended to the outmost step of the human 



38 IN THE BEGINNING 

form, but they were not immortal. Some of the 
ante-human tribes approached almost to the bal- 
ancing point, but none of them possessed the in- 
tellectual, spirit-brain. 

A small tribe approached nearly to the human 
form. Of them, God selected a pair from which 
to develop the true htiman 3 whose body, through 
the medium of innumerable spermatozoa and mole- 
cular changes had been brought up to the perfect 
form in the ante-human embryo, just.before the ap- 
proximate of the true human type. As I said the 
ovaries of the anti-human parents were impreg- 
nated with a super-animal principle within the 
matrix of the parents, whose offspring were the 
true human. But the human soul could not be 
perfectly organized without the two physical 
brains, and the impersonal, infinite spirit could 
not be embodied unless the soul pre-existed; hence 
in the formation of the human there is a spirit- 
brain added to the physical organism, which is the 
seat of the soul. By the union of the two physical 
an intellectual, spiritual, immortal being, with 
the spiritual brain, the ante-human became human, 
an (intellectual, spiritual, immortal being), with 
the ability to. commune with and receive instruc- 
tions from God. 

There is a period in the development of the em- 
bryo, when the omnipresent principles of immor- 
tality, transmittd by the parents received the im- 
press of father-mother God to be developed by the 
everpresent spirit, as the physical is developed by 
the physical elements. The soul of the human 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 39 

child is individualized at conception, and is de- 
veloped and perfected by contact with the spirit. 
If the child lives pure and just; but if the individ- 
ual lives and desires evil, the spirit of God does 
not act with him, because they do not harmonize, 
and the soul receives only evil impressions. 

The mind is the production of the brain, and 
the formation of the brain determines the quality 
of the mind. For that reason children require 
careful instruction from infancy. A perfect hu- 
man possesses the religious department of spirit- 
brain, which contains the religious moral attri- 
butes, collectively called "righteousness", which, 
if cultivated by righteous thoughts, deeds and de- 
sires, insures "immortal life". Mind is the final 
end of organization, the culmination, the apex of 
matter, as it contained body and soul, the perfect 
fruit of the "Tree of Life".' 

I have given you a description of genesis and 
creation and my description is true. It agrees 
with A. J. Davis and all old writings and tradi- 
tions. The Genesis in our Bible is attributed to 
Moses, but he did not write it. It was re-written 
long after his death. When I think of Moses, I 
see him, a tall, spare man, with an earnest, sober 
visage, a little stooped in the shoulders and plain- 
ly clad. He might represent one of the old Eoman 
generals. 

Between three and four or five thousand years 
ago, Moses was instructed to go and teach the na- 
tions of creation religion, laws, man and his des- 
tiny. These instructions have been mostly lost, 



40 IN THE BEGINNING 

but we find part of them in the traditions and 
manuscripts of India and in New Revelations. The 
descriptions in our genesis are covered by allegory 
and the true meaning, hid under figurative lan- 
guage. But I have given you the true method of 
creation and will explain it more fully in another 
chapter. I uncover the esoteric or hidden side. As 
man is the ultimate of all forms created before 
him, so God is the super-superlative being in the 
universe, from which all forms were modeled in 
part. 

I have shown you how the earth was formed or 
created, and that it required millions of years to 
form it, each day spoken of in Genesis consisting 
of million of our years. I will continue the de- 
scription : 

Genesis says, ' ' The earth was formless and void, 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep". 
After thousands of years the waters of the atmos- 
phere separated from the waters of the ocean and 
the mountain tops appeared, and by the action of 
the water and the elements a submarine matrix 
was formed under water, and the first animal life 
was formed under water by the spontaneous im- 
pregnation. Man-animal was first produced from 
an animal resembling the seal as the frog was from 
the polly wog. Old writers speak of a " man-fish ' ' 
from which man was first derived, only as a model 
from which to develop higher types. There was 
at first a variety of models, some more, some less 
perfect, until there were hundreds of millions of 
pre-humans in human form not perfect on the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 41 

earth, as I told you, and the first-born of the "pre- 
human pair prepared v was the true human, the 
first formed in the "likeness of God". Genesis 
says, "The serpent tempted Eve and she fell", and 
an old manuscript says, "The serpent went with 
Eve instead of Adam ' ', thus, the first great, great 
sin was adultery. Adultery was forbidden to all 
the inhabitants of the earth, even to animals. 

The subtle beast, in the form of a human, saw 
the beautiful Eve and took her for a companion, 
and the first son born of a human mother was a 
semi-human and they called his name "Cain", 
which signifies "Evil" or "Devil". His half 
brother was called "Abel", which signifies 
"good" and "beautiful", and he was called a 
shepherd and his tribe was so gentle that they 
were called "sheep". When Cain was grown, as 
I told you, he was driven out of the beautiful gar- 
den of peace, lest he should cross with Abel's 
tribe, and degrade them to semi-humans, and Cain 
went to the "Land of Nod" and took a wife. 
"Nod" signifies "asleep" without spirit brain. 
Cain took a wife of the tribe called "beast" and 
they become a large tribe of semi-humans and 
quadroons, etc. 

Meantime, Abel's tribe became very numerous, 
but Cain's joined to the old tribe, called "Beast", 
formed a large tribe of giant strength. The first 
tribe called "Man" dwelt in Central Asia, but 
Asia was not formed as it is now. It occupied 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The semi- 
humans did not posses perfect vocal organs and 



42 IN THE BEGINNING 

their language was monosyllabic. They were im- 
perfectly organized and manifested all the evil 
passions of the beast, called the "Animal Adam". 
They were deceitful, false, tyannical, ambitious, 
licentious and cruel, and correspond to the one 
called "Cain" in our genesis. They became well 
versed in sensuous knowledge, for which they were 
called the "Tree of Knowledge". Owing to a 
change in climate, which had become frigid and 
unequal, Abel's tribe migrated farther south and 
located near Cain's tribe; and Abel's tribe, who 
represented the true Adam, was told not to "eat" 
(cross) with the Tree of Knowledge in the midst 
of the garden. If they did, they would die. That 
is, if they crossed with the semi-humans they 
would lose the attributes of immortality and be- 
come mortal or dead. As Cain's race knew no 
other God, they worshipped Cain as the head of 
their race and were called the "Sons of God" after 
the death of Abel's tribe. Our genesis says, "The 
sons of God (Cain) saw the daughters of men, that 
they were fair and took them wives of all they 
chose". Here again we find the "serpent", Cain's 
race, committing the sin of adultrous amalgama- 
tion, by tempting or compelling the daughters of 
men to wife with the forbidden tree, and by doing 
so the true Adam fell to the condition of semi-hu- 
mans, "except a few", who would not cross with 
the "evil race". Cain's race seeing Abel's build 
altars and sacrifices to a god that they did not 
know, became so jealous and angry that they arose 
and banded their tribes together and made war on 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 43 

Abel's tribe, who were joined to Eve's tribe, and 
exterminated them (except a few) and sacrificed 
them on their own altars, and Cain's tribes or Sa- 
tan, took possession of the whole earth and ruled 
and reigned a thouand years, but the majority of 
them were mere animals in human form, and by 
their licentious and evil practice they became mis- 
erably depraved and beastly, and after destroying 
Abel's race and all that was good, they migrated 
to Atlantese, then a part of Spain. (Atlantese 
signifies ' ' inferior " ) . They became the dominant 
nation on the earth and as Genesis says, "became 
a nation of renown", but the "greatness" spoken 
of was derived from the cross with Abel's race. 
They were strong physically and after the war 
with Abel, they learned to commune with evil 
spirits and professed to know everything and have 
all power; and they were called the "Tree of 
Knowledge", and "Satan" and the "Prince of 
the Powers of the Air" (spirits) and "Powers of 
Darkness" and "Devil". They were enemies to 
God and all good and righteousness. They had 
destroyed the true man on the earth and brought 
death to those who were created for immortality. 
They converted the "Earth heaven to a hell". 
Hell signifies "place of the dead". 

At first there were two root-races, Cain (dark) 
and Abel (white), both born of the same mother, 
"Eve", and both claiming to be the "sons of 
God". After Cain's race took possession of the 
earth, many of them crossed over to America on 



44 • IN THE BEGINNING 

the slips of land that formed the earth at that 
time. 

One large tribe, located where the Gulf of Mexi- 
co now is, became quite civilized. They used 
hieroglyphics to express their history and religion. 
By associating with Abel's tribe many years, some 
of the crossed race became quite intelligent, but 
they lacked the higher intellectual spirit brain, 
possessed by Abel and his tribe, and retained all 
the evil nature of the old tribe or beast. The 
crossed race colonized every part of the earth. 

Previous to the flood, the north of England 
(Angle land) and north of America were under 
water, and formed part of the Arctic Ocean, and 
as the warm waters of the equator were shut off 
from the north, the snow and ice accumulated in 
mountain heights, and the waters of the then com- 
paratively small ocean were frozen at the north 
and south poles, and the atmosphere became frigid 
and cold, and for a long period of years large ice- 
bergs and glaciers descended from the poles to- 
wards the tropics, and the atmosphere became un- 
equal in density to the expansive force of the in- 
terior of the earth, and from the pressure, the in- 
terior of the ^arth assumed impetuous motion, 
which acted on the crust of the earth bursting the 
entire mass and causing an upheaval of the north 
of England and the north part of America with all 
the adjacent parts and lands. 

The explosion shook the whole earth to the cen- 
ter, breaking in some parts the whole combined 
strata; some parts sank and some parts were 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 45 

raised as high mountain ranges; and the water, 
which before was in a united body of streams, ex- 
tending through many valleys, joining the same 
body of water. At that time the Pacific Ocean 
was not formed as it now is. It was a large, 
marshy continent, appearing as islands above the 
water. Suddenly the valley sank, and the hot wa- 
ter of the melted ice from the north flowed over it 
and formed the Pacific Ocean as it now is, separ- 
ating the two continents which were joined before 
by strips of land. The continent of Atlantese also 
sank, forming the Atlantic Ocean; and a part of 
Yucatan also sank, forming the Gulf of Mexico, 
destroying nearly all the inhabitants that had col- 
lected on that part : and a few fled. They were of 
the dark Cain's cross — "Indians", lacking intel- 
lect and manliness. 

Their religious doctrines were esoteric. They 
were cannibals. In the war with Abel they sac- 
rificed and ate Abel's race and the world was left 
in darkness spiritually. 

Many persons have wondered why mankind was 
so diversified in form, feature and complexion. I 
have told you there were several ante-human types 
and the crosses with them produced a variety of 
inferior sub-races, and as the dark race was re- 
tarded in the law of progressive development by 
the curse, they could not progress to the high state 
of the pure race and remained in inferior types 
even to this day as we see them. 

The earth was inhabited many, perhaps millions 
of years by pre-human types, but the true race of 



46 IN THE BEGINNING 

man, as I have told you, were white, with perfect 
form and feature, but by crossing, as I have said, 
with inferior, sub-races possessing evil natures, 
thus forming the fallen, unprogressive nations 
called "men". 

When the animals, who developed the frame- 
work of man, lived on the earth, as I told you, the 
land and water were differently distributed and 
inhabitants could pass from island to island all 
round the earth, and the climate was humid and 
warm and they lived in a temperate climate from 
pole to pole. But, as the earth and ocean became 
cold, and the vapors from the ocean were carried 
by the trade winds to the poles, and descended 
there in snow and ice, and as there was no open 
ocean to carry it back to the equator, the ice accu- 
mulated, forming mountains; and melting under- 
neath, formed glaciers which descended towards 
the equator, grinding down mountain tops and 
filling up valleys, strewing the bed of the ocean 
with rocks and boulders, some of enormous size, 
and when parts of the earth were heaved up by 
the great earthquake, they were brought to the 
surface and may be seen on many parts of the 
earth. 

"When the earthquake burst the earth's crust, 
volumes of fire and smoke and melted metals burst 
forth, filling the air with flames of fire and smoke. 
Fire burst forth at the North Pole and the valley 
of the Pacific sank and was submerged by the hot 
waters from the poles. A part of Asia sank and 
formed the Caspian and Mediterranean seas and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 47 

other seas were formed, and nearly all the inhabi- 
tants on the earth were destroyed, and darkness 
was on the earth a long time, caused by the dense 
clouds of smoke and vapor. The great continent 
of Polynesia was submerged, leaving only islands. 

Previous to the flood, many tribes of the crossed 
race migrated to America. In time they learned 
to build with stone and built cities and towers. 
One tribe built a city where Pompeii was built af- 
terwards, and the remnants of cities have been 
found on some of the islands that were not sub- 
merged by the flood. But the people who built 
them were submerged and destroyed. The island 
of Australia is the remnant of a continent and the 
natives found there were of Cain's race; some of 
them are still there. 

The submerged lands were densely populated, 
mostly by Atlanteans and still lower types. A few 
of the true man, much degenerated, located in 
Middle Asia after the flood. Many suppose that 
only Noah and his family were left on the earth. 
But there were remnants of the low races where 
the earthquake and flood did not destroy them. 
Noah was told, "Go, multiply and replenish the 
earth" and not to mate with the lower crosses. 
But history says, "Some migrated to Hindustan 
and married with the Atlanteans, who were left 
after the flood and sought shelter in the moun- 
tains ' '. And Ham went to Africa and by crossing 
with a low tribe became "Cain-Hamites", and Ja- 
phet colonized more northern parts, but they all 
found the low races, and those of the true race did 



48 IN THE BEGINNING 

not all obey the command t ' Eat not of the forbid- 
den tree', thus contaminating the true race by 
' ' amalgamation ' '. 

To Cain, who represented the old serpent, God 
said, "On thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt 
thou eat all the days of thy life". They were 
dropped out, they could not attain to the high 
plane of the true race. 

God commanded the true race to keep to their 
race, as by them man must be redeemed. God 
had his eye over the true race, and from time to 
time selected one with whom he could commune 
for a teacher to the people, to instruct them in the 
truth and righteousness. After Noah, others of 
the same family were chosen as prophets to in- 
struct the people. 

Previous to the flood there were two gardens in 
Eden. The true Adam and Eve occupied a garden 
in Asia, and Cain's race occupied one in what is 
noAv called Africa, then called Hesperides or 
"Western Paradise" near Mount Atlas. After 
the flood, a few of the sub-races were found in 
every part of the earth, and we see in the curse of 
Noah to Ham the same that was put upon Cain's 
race in the beginning. 

Having proceeded thus far in my endeavor to 
explain the Bible and religion, etc., to make them 
more plain and comprehensive, I will re-state some 
of the facts. The term "Bible" is derived from 
"Bable", babble, talk, word, logus. "Logus-de- 
bar- Jehovah ", the "Word of Jehovah". "Logus" 
signifies "Word". The Platonists speak of the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 49 

word in this way, "By whom, (eternally exist- 
ing) all things were made". And the Indian Bible 
says, ' ' The law is the body, nnder which the prim- 
itive word, which created the world, is manifest- 
ed", by whom all things were made. 

That is, by the law given to Moses, through the 
"word" God was made manifest. God was made 
manifest by the "word". If God had not spoken 
to the people they would not have known there 
was a God. 

God spoke to the people by the omnipresent 
spirit. 

Clark says, "It is remarkable that Moses and 
the prophets, the ancient Chaldeans, Targumists, 
the author of the Zendavesta, Plato, Philo, the Jew 
John and Mohammed should so perfectly agree in 
their ideas of a glorious person in the "Godhead". 
That is not remarkable, for Moses taught, "That 
man was made or formed in the image of God". 
Where there is no person, there can be no image. 
An image represents some form. There can not 
be an image of the mind (properly speaking), 
though an artist may represent the wind, figura- 
tively by an image as ' ' Goulds ' West wind ' ', but 
man is not a figurative representation, but a real 
image of God. The idea that the Lord, Jehovah, 
is a glorious being is not accidental; Moses and 
the prophets received the divine doctrine from 
God Himself and taught it to the people. He con- 
versed with them, and they saw His glory. The 
"Lord, Jehovah" and the "Spirit" are one and 
occupy, not fill, the universe. There is a real 



50 IN THE BEGINNING 

personal God. I have seen him on His throne. I 
have seen His glorious ' ' face ' \ I have communed I 
with Him, and my testimony is true. 

Christ is the son, and represented "God". 

After the flood there were two dominant races, 
Noah and his family located on the river Oxus in 
Asia, and the other chieftain located in Hindustan. 
Noah's family remained there many years, and our 
Bible history says, "That in journeying from the 
east, they come to "Ur", in the land of Shinar, 
near the Euphrates, and built a city and a tower. ' ' 
The people of the true race kept the beauty of 
form and face, more perfect than the sub-race. 
Tradition says that "Ur" was a magnificnt city, 
adorned with gold and silver and precious stones. 
"Ur" must have been a small city and built by 
Noah's family, after the flood. The fabled Eden 
after the flood. 

Some persons say, "Why did Egypt, the val- 
ley of the Euphrates and adjacent countries be- 
come so polished in literature, learning, the arts, 
etc., while the more remote nations became bar- 
barous, losing all knowledge of their origin and 
practicing religious rites the most revolting?" 

To answer the above question, I must return to 
Noah. Egypt was colonized by one of Noah's 
children (Ham), possessing a knowledge of the 
true religion, creation, etc., and all other knowl- 
edge understood at that time, and they were in 
commune with God. But they found a remnant 
of Cain's race there, and by crossing with them, 
they fell and became " Cain-Hamites " in time. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 51 

Part of Noah's family went to Hindustan and 
commenced a civilization there. And Japhet 
colonized a more northern land, and Noah and 
Shem built on the Euphrates, and those parts be- 
came enlightened. But the distant lands were in- 
habited by remnants of Cain's crossed race, on 
whom the curse of Cain rested, and they formed 
the heathen or barbarous nations, but Noah 
blessed Shem (in prophecy). They formed the 
enlightened nations. The church was formed of 
those two nations. Those prophecies have all 
been filled. Noah put the same curse of servility 
on Ham's crossed race that was put on Cain's race 
in the beginning. 

Hume says, ''The southern parts of Britain, or 
England, had increased to a great multitude, and 
made the first steps in civil government by agri- 
culture before the age of Caesar. But in the north- 
ern parts they lived in huts, in the forests, and 
clothed themselves in skins, and their priests were 
Druids, who practiced horrid rites in dark forests. 
They were cannibals. They taught the religion 
and rites of Cain's race; their religion was their 
law, and those who refused to submit to the rule 
of the priest were exposed to the most severe pun- 
ishment. They were forbidden access to the sac- 
rifices, and all intercourse with the citizens, and 
their intercourse was shunned as dangerous. They 
were refused the protection of law, and death be- 
came a relief from infamy and the misery to which 
they were exposed. The original Hindus had the 
same laws, and our so-called churches cultivate the 



52 IN THE BEGINNING 

same feeling toward non-church members. In the 
beginning Abel was teacher and ruler, under the 
instructions of God, but after the death of his 
tribe, Cain claimed to be God, and ruled according 
to his desires. He was an Anarchist. 

Now, I will follow a branch of the true "root- 
race", down from Abraham. Our Bible history 
says, "that God called Abraham out of 'Ur' in 
Persia, and said ' Get thee out of thy country to a 
land I will show thee, and I will make of thee a 
great nation, and I will make thy name great, and 
thou shalt be blessed' ". According to Bible 
chronology, Abraham was born two hundred and 
fifty years after the flood, and we find him in 
"Ur", the fabled "Garden of Eden", and Peter 
supposed he was the Adam spoken of in Genesis. 
He was not "Adam", but he represented Adam 
as the head of the chosen race at that time, and 
Sarah represented the Eve who tempted Abraham 
(Adam) to sin by giving him to eat of the forbid- 
den "fruit" (Hagar was of the forbidden race or 
tree) and Sarah gave her to Abraham to wife, and 
the child of the union represented Cain and was 
a curse to the world. He was the father of the 
Ishmaelites, Mohammedans, a retarded race, who 
strove to destroy the true race, and today we have 
to contend with those heathen nations, to compel 
them to an enlightened civilization.— Witness the 
Filipinos. 

"Ur" was the fabled garden after the flood. 
Abraham and Sarah represented Adam and Eve ; 
Hagar represented the Tempter and also the "For- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA ' 53 

bidden Fruit". Her son represented Cain, and 
Isaac represented Abel, etc. 

Abraham was fair and very handsome; Sarah 
was his half sister, and very fair; Isaac's wife was 
Abraham's niece and very fair; Jacob's wife was 
daughter of Abraham's nephew (Laban of Chal- 
dea) and was very fair. (We see that the Lord en- 
deavored to keep the original beauty of man in the 
chosen race.) 

And Abraham took Sarah and his family and 
went to Canaan and built an altar near Bethel. 
Bethel signifies "bread". Bethlehem was built 
there afterwards, but as the famine was 
great in the land, he continued his journey in- 
to Egypt. After the famine was over he returned 
to Canaan and stopped at Bethel; and the Lord 
came to him in a vision and said, "Fear not, Abra- 
ham, I am thy shield and exceeding great re- 
ward". I am the Lord that brought thee out of 
"Ur" to give thee this land. Know of a surety 
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a strange land 
and shall serve them and be afflicted four hundred 
years. After that they shall come out with great 
substance and the nation whom they serve will I 
judge". Here we see a part of Genesis filled. The 
descendants of Cain ruling over the race of Abel, 

"In the fourth generation they shall come here 
again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet 
full". The Amorites were of the forbidden race 
and were always at enmity with the true race. 
Some persons ask, "Why did God, being just and 
good, drown Pharaoh and his army in the sea!" 



54 IN THE BEGINNING 

Because they were Cain-Hamites and enemies to 
God, and persecuted and destroyed the true race. 

In the Bible history, Abraham represents Adam 
as Peter supposed he did; and God made a cove- 
nant with him by the "seal of circumcision". By 
the seal, Abraham and his family were separated 
and sat apart from other nations. They repre- 
sented the true race of Adam. "Church" signi- 
fies "called out, exalted". They were called out 
and exalted above the other nations., to continue 
the church, that was established with Abel and 
keep the pure race. But Abraham sinned by 
crossing with the forbidden tree and her offspring, 
Ishmael, represented Cain, having the same enmity 
for the superior race, and was marked with the 
same curse. Isaac represented Abel, the Prophet. 

Abraham was called to instruct the people, and 
while in Egypt he taught them religion and mathe- 
matical creation (from which Masonry is derived) 
But I think the Masons have lost the true inter- 
pretation. 

God told Israel, "Your first father sinned". 
Abraham was the father of Israel, and sinned, as 
I told you, by adultery with Hagar. The Hindu 
Bible speaks of Abraham as "Adjagorta", who 
plays the same role of sacrificing his son as told 
in our Bible of Abraham. 

The sacrifice of Isaac is not understood. It is 
figurative. Isaac represented "Abel", the true 
race that must not be sacrificed and the sacrifice 
of the red or brown "goat" represents the dark 
race that must be sacrificed. The beast, or animal 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 55 

race must be sacrificed, for if left to overrun the 
world, they would exterminate the white man, the 
true race. And was not Moses told in his wars to 
destroy those who opposed his "progress", and 
make room for the white race 1 Isaac represented 
the true race, and the goat represented those hav- 
ing the "mark of the beast". Some ministers 
teach that Isaac prefigured the sacrifice of Christ, 
who must die. Not so; it was shown by the sacri- 
fice of the goat that Christ must not die. 

Abraham did not realize in his desire for a son, 
that by taking Hagar he committd a great sin, by 
introducing a race that would be enemies to God 
and man and retard their progress to enlighten- 
ment and perfection, for God designed man as the 
"ultimate", to eliminate angels, who might in- 
habit "heaven". 

I have shown you the method of creation — the 
origin of man; how Adam fell, and how he must 
be redeemed, and how the variety of low races 
were formed by crossing with the pre-humans 
and semi-humans. 

But one of the oldest traditions says, "That an 
ugly black beast, stole a white woman, but she was 
half serpent (Cain's race) and carried her to his 
den, and of them arose a large tribe of nagas and 
God was so angry that he caused a flood and de- 
stroyed both man and beast except a few. 

And we see by reading closely that the white 
man must be the dominant race or fall as Adam 
did in the beginning, as I have explained. 



56 IN THE BEGINNING 



CHAPTER (3). 

Genesis — As given by two Cheelies, one in the 
East and one in the West. 

It was given to them on a written manuscript by 
an old-time spirit-sage. J shall only give you the 
interpretation of the true principles as taught to 
them by the sage. He, the sage, says: " Six or- 
ders of existence preceded man". I have ex- 
plained that in "Primogenesis". He says: "Ani- 
mals preceded man". Correct. He says: "The 
first representatives of humanity on earth were 
spiritual men, gifted with immortality". He 
says: "The first entities of humanity evolved 
seven races of men, man's "ancestors", (ante-hu- 
mans), some writers call them "man-fish". T 
showed you how the frog was evolved from the 
tadpole, so the first entity, resembling human form, 
was evolved under water from a fish or seal, called 
the ' ' man-fish ' '. He says : ' ' By the middle of the 
third race man became as we know him now". 
(Explained in another place). He says: "After 
the flood, as the true type progressed the sub-types 
retrogressed" (as we find by looking at the races 
of the sub-types.) 

He says: "The first sexual sin was the subjec- 
tion of woman by man". Another writer says: 
"The first sin was adultery". I will explain. The 
old beast, called "Adam", represented man, and 
Eve represented woman; and another writer says: 
"The beast, the yellow Adam, went with Eve, and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 57 

the result of the adultery was Cain, a semi-human, 
whose race caused the true mankind to fail, as I 
have explained in another place. He says : ; ' The 
elementals had no place or existence until human- 
ity descended into matter". (The cross between 
human and animal men were called "Element- 
als ' '. They were not immortal, they were with- 
out the "spirit-brain". 

A writer says : * ' That at this time we find the 
higher grade of spirits assisting and teaching man 
to a higher condition, but the lower races are in- 
capable of higher attainments ' '. (They are of the 
crossed race). 

The two Cheelies say, l ' The absolute wisdom in 
the universe is the central-spiritual-sun". (Ex- 
plained in another place). 

The Adepts speak of the "degrees of brother- 
hood" and their emblems and symbols (Masonic). 
They say, "The object of those studies and prac- 
tices is to be worthy of heaven". They say, "We 
must care for others, be chaste, pure, humble, pa- 
tient, truthful and righteous in all things". 
(Christ taught the same principles or religion). 
Their system of religion is first to free yourself 
from "karma" or sin, as karma, or sin, has no 
bonds for the righteous. They say, "Karma 
produces 'Life and Death'. That is, by the right- 
eous law of karma, the righteous man has eternal 
life, and by the same righteous law the evil man 
has eternal death". 

They say, ' ' To attain heaven, we must be master 
of our own acts, be righteous in life and' renounce 



58 IN THE BEGINNING 

all ceremonious religion". Christ taught the 
same religion. The knowledge was given to them 
by an old-time "Mahatma" (great mind). Their 
writings witness to the truth of my writings which 
I wrote before I read their book. We see by read- 
ing all the old books that there is no mention made 
of redemption by the death of Christ. Christ had 
the power to baptize, or re-incarnate the immortal 
spirit, that was lost by the fall, to all who could 
and would receive it, and thus to redeem man to 
eternal life. (Explained further in another 
place). 

They say "that during the history of the first 
Aryans, the women were equal with the men and 
marriage was a sacrament ". (Those conditions 
were changed when Cain's race came into power). 
They say, "Geologists will not admit that man 
was on the earth during the glacial period". Our 
great seer and present revelations say, "that man 
was on the earth before or during the glacial pe- 
riod that caused the great cataclysm, called Noah's 
Flood". They say, "that the Aryans did not 
come into contact with the Atlanteans till they 
had developed a civilization of their own". (At- 
lanteans, an inferior race). 

The Cheelies say, ' l The cradle of the Aryan race 
was central Asia ' \ Correct. They say, ' ' The first 
emigration to India was the flower of the Aryan 
race". (Correct). And that they reached a pitch 
of greatness and civilization, which has not been 
equalled, and they say, ' l Their philosophy and re- 
ligion is but dimly outlined by the custodians of 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 59 

the ancient "wisdom religion". The migration 
they speak of was Moses and Aaron and Israel, 
who was the flower of the Aryan race at that time. 
The Aryans were white and rnddy and the higher 
class of Hindus found there by Moses were a cross 
of Cain and Abel's races, and a branch of Ham's 
race, who had crossed with the Hindus and at- 
tained for that a high state of civilization, which 
had degenerated before Moses went there; but 
Moses renewed the civilization and restored the 
true religion, and gave them laws. They say, 
"Long years might have elapsed before the West 
recognized the gems of wisdom left in India by the 
Aryans, (Israel) had not England gone to India". 
The English are of Shem and Japhet. They are 
the "star" spoken of in Revelations. That would 
open the "Pit", India, etc. 

They say, ' ' The presence of the English in India 
will steadily add to its splendor". They say, 
"The first language given to man was given to the 
Aryans". Correct. They only had perfectly de- 
veloped organs of speech. They say, "The ma- 
terial prosperity of the Atlanteans was much in 
advance of the Aryans at one time". After they 
destroyed Abel's, the Aryan race, they continued 
to progress for a time, and ruled the earth for a 
thousand years, as I have explained. The Atlan- 
teans, Cain's crossed race, were enemies to the 
"spiritual heroes" or "gods", as they called 
them, and they killed them and sacrificed them 
on their own altars and feasted on their flesh as I 
have explained in another place. They say, "the 



60 IN THE BEGINNING 

Atlanteans and their highest pitch of civilization 
before the Aryans were out of their swaddling 
clothes. The Aryans were the civilizers, but after 
their destruction the Atlanteans, Cain's cross, be- 
came the dominant race, until the flood and after 
the flood they outnumbered the Aryans. But they 
were without their talents and intellect, and we 
find them in the dark races and the Cheelies say, 
"In the Brahmanicai writings they are described 
as raw-eaters (cannibals). 

The Cheelies say, ' i that at the time of the inva- 
sion of India by the Aryans (Israel with Moses 
and Aaron), the Atlanteans occupied a large 
fort". (That looks as if their civilization was 
very small at that time). And they say, "The 
Atlanteans were developed in occult forces and 
the highest mysteries called ' Black Magic'. The 
rites and ceremonies of Black Magic are horrible 
and revolting. They were the "Tree of Knowl- 
edge forbidden to the Aryans', Abel's race". 

They say, ' ' The fourth race based their civiliza- 
tion on personal desires" and our Genesis says, 
"They became so corrupt and sinful that God de- 
stroyed them by a flood". They were a cross of 
Cain's and Abel's races, as I have explained in 
another place. 

They say, ' ' The fifth race will develop the intel- 
lectual faculties to the highest degree". The 
present and the sixth race will be highly spiritual, 
and before the close all human beings will attain 
enlightenment". (The millennium or Lord's 
Day). 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 61 

They say "The last submergence of the Atlan- 
tean continent took place some five thousand 
years ago". Nearly correct. They say, " The fa- 
mous battle that subdued the Atlanteans took 

place " (The leader of that battle was Moses* 

as I find by reading other manuscripts). They 
say l * The Sanscrit is nearest to the original speech 
and the sacred language of Zoroaster (Moses). 
Was the "Zend" a dialect of the Sanscrit! While 
in Persia Moses wrote in the "Zend". They say 
the incantations of the inferior races was a call 
to the spirits to manifest themselves in person or 
power. They did not understand the commune of 
the superior races with God and the angels. 

They say, "Religion had no existence before 
man was developed". The principles of religion 
were and are an eternal law, manifested in all 
"righteousness". But previous to man there was 
no one to manifest religion or the laws of right- 
eousness. Man was taught true religion. But 
when Cain's race destroyed Abel's race, the true 
religion was lost, except to few persons, the 
"priesthood". The Cheelies say, "To kndw the 
absolute 'consciousness or God', the knower must 
cease to have any existence in the world of phe- 
nomena. That idea led many persons into se- 
clusion and superstitious acts. The Cheelies say, 
"The Aryans were the first inheritors of divine 
knowledge, and that they had to face the great 
problem of self-knowledge". (Immortality). The 
beauty and greatness of primitive religion was 
harmony with God and nature, but as Cain's race 



62 IN THE BEGINNING 

got in the ascendant, they worshipped the planets 
and the spirits of their ancestors and idols, etc. 
They say, "The Dyhan-Cohans ' ' are the ascend- 
ing spirits to higher spheres, and evil spirits de- 
scend to lower spheres. Those things are tanght 
at the present time. They say, "High Adepts or 
Mediums can commune with Dyhan-Cohans of dif- 
ferent grades and obtain knowledge". (One of 
the mysteries). Many of the mediums of today 
can obtain knowledge of higher spheres. They 
say, "The transition of spirits from one state to 
another is the natural condition of man". (Ex- 
plained in another place). 

Theosophists have two lodges in India, a black 
and a white; the black gives the power to obsess. 
In the Middle Ages it was called "witchcraft". 
The Adepts say, ("At the next period of activity 
the black magicians commence a period of name- 
less life, of spiritual wickedness".) The mys- 
teries of the grades of lost spirits are never spok- 
en of except by the initiated. The mysteries of 
the "bottomless pit" appear to be hidden, even 
from seers. But it is said by seers, and revela- 
tions confirm it, ' ' that the evil ones in the pit take 
on the forms of those animals they represent by 
their lives." 

The Adepts say, "There was a time when the 
Adepts, as kings and priests, guided the progress 
of our race ' \ In the beginning, man was a ' ' The- 
oracy", taught by the "Sons of God". Abel's 
tribe were called "Sons of God". The Adepts 
say, "That God appeared to mankind and com- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 63 

municated to them eternal truths", through men 
set apart for that purpose". (Prophets). 

The " Dyhan-Cohan, " spoken of by the two 
Cheelies, who established the hierarchy in India 
to watch over and instruct the people was 
"Moses" and the "Hierarchy" was the priest- 
hood formed by him, called "Brahmans". 

The Adepts say, ' ' The truth has been known in 
all ages, that the unknown something underlying 
phenomenal manifestations is absolute conscious- 
ness", (spirit) "and that the manifested 'cosmos' 
will in time return unmanifested and be re-man- 
ifested. (I have explained). That is the meta- 
physical doctrine of cycles, which divide eterni- 
ties into manifestation and chaos. They say, 
"There must be on our earth human beings on 
different planes of consciousness". True, and 
there is material and spiritual consciousness. We 
find that the revelations, given to the old masters, 
whose knowledge we respect, agree with present 
revelations, but we find that translators have 
made many mistakes and ignorant readers adopt 
superstitious opinions. 

They say, "The third race marked a new con- 
dition of things, that material development slow- 
ly dimmed man's spiritual nature". That sig- 
nifies that, as man fell by crossing with animal- 
men, to a lower plane, he lost his spirit brain and 
spirit nature, as I have explained before. They 
say, "that after man was perfected they fell into, 
or by generating with animals, in human form, 
called "beasts" (as told in allegory in our gene- 



64 IN THE BEGINNING 

sis). They say, "The first race (Adam and Eve) 
were gifted with immortality, and the second race 
(Cain's cross with animal men) grew turbid by 
the loss of spiritual consciousness. They say, 
"that even at this time some men can not tran- 
scend the limits of their race in developments". 
They are retarded by a law of fitness, as they have 
not the higher brain-organization. They speak 
of the "necessity of evil". Evil was caused by 
the fall. If man had not fallen, he would have 
progressed in goodness and knowledge instead 
of retrogressing to the evil, beastly nature of the 
animal plane and spiritual death. They say, "As 
man plunged into matter, the more he lost his 
spiritual consciousness, and he became animal- 
like, but there were exceptions". But bye and 
bye they banded together (Cain's race) and de- 
stroyed man, and death marked the evolution of 
man at that time ' \ (Explained in another place) . 
This chapter teaches Genesis as given in alle- 
gory in our Bible, and agrees with mine. 



Genesis.. 
CHAPTER (4). 

The mystery of the Garden of Eden in our Bible 
explained. 

As all our religious opinions are founded on 
Genesis, 'tis right that we should understand the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 65 

truth of the mystery contained in Genesis. The 
"fall" of Adam, the old serpent, the Tree of Life, 
the Tree of Knowledge, the origin of man, etc. 
Men have been searching for hundreds of years 
for the truth without finding it. After years of 
research I have found the truth, as given in Gene- 
sis. 

The Genesis, in our Bible, was written by the 
Jews a long time before the Babylonish captivity; 
and 'tis asserted by recent revelations "That 
the accounts given in it are exceedingly truthful, 
(figuratively), as they reflect the general theology 
and genesis of the Persians and all other nations, 
from traditional history. 

Our genesis gives an allegorical sketch of the 
genesis of man, but tells us nothing of cosmogene- 
sis, or by what process man was formed. From 
traditional history 'tis authentically said, "that 
genesis was systematized by the first Zoroaster or 
Moses, while in Persia". Moses was called Zor- 
oaster while in Persia, which signifies "Legisla- 
tor", and "Monue" by the Hindus, and "Mosa" 
by the Egyptians and others, and while in India lie 
was considered as a "god" — he represented God, 
and Aaron, the Allegorical Christ or "Brahma". 
While he was in Egypt he had access to their 
Aekines, which contained all their traditional 
knowledge, and as Mercurious the Second, invent- 
ed letters. Moses had a knowledge of the use of 
those letters, and carried the knowledge with 
him to Persia and India, and as Moses mar- 
ried the daughter of the priest in Persia, and re- 



66 IN THE BEGINNING 

mained there a long time, he was learned in all 
their knowledge and traditions, and being de- 
scended from Abraham and Noah, he knew their 
traditions and history. 

While in India Moses selected, combined and 
harmonized the figurative, traditional genesis and 
cosmogonies of all nations into one comprehensive 
' ' Allegory ' ', which was preserved and kept by the 
"priesthood" in temples; and when Moses left 
India he left the knowledge with the priesthood 
he had formed. Long after Moses was dead, the 
Jews, while in captivity, re-wrote, abridged and 
covered Genesis, in obscurity, as we find it in our 
Bible. From the beginning, all knowledge was 
kept by symbol and glyphtics; there was an 
"esoteric" for the initiated, and an "exoteric" 
for the uninitiated. In our Bible we have the ex- 
oteric meaning of Genesis, which only "reflects" 
the true cosmogony and genesis. Moses taught 
the cosmogenesis, genesis and religion of the 
universe, and when he left India he left a 
priesthood called "Brahmans", and with them 
the true religion and knowledge of crea- 
tion. But the priests and people degenerated 
to the condition in which they were found by Eng- 
land, who were attracted there for wealth. Some 
of Moses' teachings are found in their "Vedas", 
but most of his teachings have never been written, 
and are kept only traditionally. 

Perhaps some will say, "When did Moses go to 
India"! (Explained in another place). After 
Moses and the white race "Israel" left India, the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 67 

Hindus degenerated naturally, as they were a 
cross of the inferior race; but there were other 
causes for degeneracy, which I can't explain here. 
But they hold in their temples manuscripts of 
the true religion and genesis, mixed with super- 
stition, allegory. Buddhism, and other isms. I 
will return to Genesis. 

In the beginning religion consisted in a knowl- 
edge of creation and righteousness of life. 

We read in Genesis '.'that the Tree of Knowledge 
grew in the midst of the garden, and a river went 
out of the garden to water it, and became four 
heads". Now, the rivers spoken of were not in 
existence before the flood, called "Noah's 
Flood", and it is evident that Genesis was not 
written till after the flood, and the writer did not 
know where the first garden was situated. But the 
place he speaks of "Canaan" was given to Abra- 
ham and his posterity, who represented Adam, 
and 'twas called "Adam's land". If the Jews 
knew the truth of Genesis, they covered it, but the 
allegory covers Genesis as far as it goes. 

At the time of "Noah's Flood" the whole earth 
was transformed, continents were elevated, moun- 
tain ranges were raised, and large tracts of land 
were submerged, rivers were formed and the ocean 
which was in broad streams became one body of 
water as it is now; and the face of the whole earth 
was changed. 

I have a scrap of printed tradition that says: 
The garden and the chosen people were situated 
on the river ' ' Oxus ' ' in Upper Asia. That was the 



68 IN THE BEGINNING 

place where Noah located for a time after the 
flood, and we read in our Bible history, "that in 
journeying from the East, Noah, or a part of his 
family, came to a place in the land of Shinar on 
the Euphrates, and built a tower and a city". 
They must have lived in Upper Asia some time 
previous to building the tower and city spoken 
of, and I think "Tlr" was the first garden after 
the flood. Genesis is traditional and was written 
in symbols until the time of Moses, and only the 
initiated understood symbology. 

Man was on the earth many years before the 
flood, and the pre-human or animal man, inhabited 
the earth thousands of years previous to man; we 
can tell about how long man has been on the earth ; 
and at this time we have new revelations, throw- 
ing more light on creation, etc. In the transla- 
tions from the Sanscrit, found in India, we have a 
great variety of opinions on genesis and creation, 
but most of them are fabulous superstitions and 
very ridiculous. Still their manuscripts contain 
the truth in figure, but everyone can 't understand 
the figurative language. 

The Genesis in our Bible, though reflecting the 
truth, comes very short of a description of crea- 
tion, the origin of man, the fall, etc. I find a 
part of the same allegory in the translations from 
different writers, though unexplained. In speak- 
ing of genesis in another place, I give the genesis 
of nearly all peoples. 

Much time has been spent by writers, thinkers 
and scientists to discover the truth contained in 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 69 

Genesis, the mystery of the Tree of Life, the Tree 
of Knowledge, the old serpent, the fall of Adam, 
etc., but they have failed to do so. Though 'tis 
no mystery when you understand the allegory 
and figurative language. Every nation had a 
different explanation of Genesis figuratively, but 
the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge, the old 
serpent, etc., were not in them, except only in 
ours. The manuscripts in Egypt were mostly de- 
stroyed. 

(In the early ages, religion and creation was a 
sacred mystery, and was explained by sacred 
characters, not understood by the common people, 
and especially by the "semi-humans", from 
which circumstance arose "esoterism".) 

Amongst the semi-humans arose some persons 
possessing the intellect of the human, added to 
the evil nature of the beast, and without the high 
spiritual nature and gentleness of the true man. 
They, seeing the sacrifices and commune of Abel 's 
tribes, soon caught the idea of a spirit world and 
communion with a higher Power, but lack- 
ing in spiritual gifts and the gentle, 
divine nature of Abel, and possessing all 
all the evil nature of the animal. They 
used their knowledge for evil purposes, and 
Genesis says, "Behold the man (Cain's race) has 
become like one of us, knowing good and evil". 
Their eyes were opened to a knowledge of good 
and evil, and with that knowledge ,and the 
assistance of evil spirits, they (Cain's race), prac- 
ticed magic, witchcraft, alchemy, idolatry, human 



70 IN THE BEGINNING 

sacrifice, etc., and they became a Tree of the 
Knowledge of Evil Practices, hidden from the 
world; and man became so corrupt that God said, 
"I will destroy both man and beast". 

The pre-human was a beast in human form. 

A certain writer tries to make science and the 
Bible agree by misconstruing the Bible. I make 
them agree by science itself and a true interpre- 
tation of the Bible. In reasoning on the fall of 
man, he reasons without knowledge, as all writers 
have done before him, except the old writers. who 
kept the knowledge in symbolic characters. I 
have read the genesis of nearly all people, and the 
old serpent was expressed by symbolism only. In 
our Genesis he is covered by allegory. In the 
Indian Bible the serpent is not mentioned. The 
Indian Bible says "that God placed Adima and 
TIeva on the beautiful Island of Ceylon, and com- 
manded them to remain there till He gave them 
permission to leave". But they left the island 
and God was angry, but he forgave them on Eve's 
account, as she did not sin except in obeying her 
husband. But He told them "that their pos- 
terity would become very corrupt and sinful, but 
after a long time they would be redeemed". Of 
course, the above is traditional. There is no other 
mention made of a redemption in all the writings 
I have read except in our Bible. I will speak of 
the redemption in another place. 

By much reading and inspiration, I have found 
the true method of creation and the fall of man. 
Men have discussed the mysteries of creation and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 71 

the fall for thousands of years, without finding 
the truth, and the writers of the Middle Ages 
used to say, "that if any one found the truth, they 
must not divulge it to the vulgar or common peo- 
ple". Why not? Because the priest would lose 
his power over the people. But as all our relig- 
ous opinions are founded on Genesis, 'tis our 
privilege and duty to find the truth contained in 
Genesis. 

1 have read nearly all the books that throw 
]ight on creation, man, the fall, etc., and have 
found the mystery that has been hid so many 
years. I have been assisted by inspiration and 
instruction, and I will prove the truth of my ex- 
planations. But the readers of the Bible are so 
stiff-necked, superstitious and :gnorant, that 'tis 
difficult to convince them of anything or truth 
outside of their opinions. 

As the allegory in Genesis covers a long space 
of time, 1 must transpose it. Create signifies to 
' ' form ' ', not to make something out of nothing, as 
our catechism says, that ' ' God made the world out 
of nothing". Paul says, "The first man was of 
the earth, earthy". He appears to have had 
some idea of the truth, as the first created in the 
human form were mere animals, without intellect 
or spirit-brain; and they as a type were called 
"Adam". But they had not the cerebellum and 
"corpus collosum" which contain the higher order 
of intellect and spirit-immortal. They were mere 
animals as were the horse and others. They 
were cunning, subtle and intelligent, as the higher 



72 IN THE BEGINNING 

order of animals previous to man, but there were 
many anti-human tribes of various types. But 
we see in one small tribe, the "Adam asleep" as 
spoken of in our genesis and in some of the writ- 
ings of India. 

This tribe called "Adam" were intellectually 
and spiritually asleep. They were pioneers to the 
true Adam, to guard and protect their way in 
their infancy. They were strong giants and pro- 
tected man as their own offspring. Our Bible 
says, "Adam was asleep when God took one of 
his ribs to form Eve". That is figurative, as I 
will explain. We read in our Bible "that God 
created man, in his own likeness ; male and female, 
created He them". From the tribe of the animal 
Adam was selected a pair (rib), male and female, 
of whom was born a son and a daughter, of per- 
fect beauty; with the (spirit-immortal brain 
added;) and they were called "Eve" and they 
were also the "Adam and Eve" made in the 
"image of God", but in the allegory they are 
called "Eve", the "perfection of creation", the 
"ultimate" of creation, by evolution. (The per- 
fect race, Eve, was evolved from the imperfect 
race Adam, who was only an animal in the human 
form.) The allegory says "the Lord took a rib 
from Adam while asleep, and of it formed Eve". 
That is figurative, it is the hidden side of the 
Bible. I show you the hidden, esoteric side, how 
Eve, the perfect, was derived from Adam, the im- 
perfect. In our Bible, called "a rib". 

Now this perfect race, Adam and Eve, were 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 73 

told "not to eat (cross) with the old stock or 
dead race, for if they did they would lose their 
human "spirit-brain", and "fall back to the 
level of the sleeping or dead Adam, from whom 
they were derived, as a rib and become spiritually 
dead. We read in our Genesis that the serpent 
tempted Eve and she fell. * I suppose that Eve 
in her innocence was easily tempted; or rather, 
that one of the old stock took her for his com- 
panion without her consent, and Genesis says 
"After eating the fruit, they were turned out of 
the garden". The true Adam and Eve left the 
old stock and dwelt near a beautiful fountain 
eastward in Eden. But the first child born of 
a human mother was a "semi-human"; the first 
born of the beautiful Eve, the "son of the morn- 
ing" was a beast; the first son born of a mother, 
lightened by the spirit-brain the son of the in- 
tellectual, spiritual, immortal life on earth, was a 
cross between the "subtle beast" and the human; 
* An old writer says, "the beast took Eve, 
instead of Adam", and St. Peter says, "Cain was 
the son of Satan", the serpent, and called 
his name "Cain", which signifies "evil", 
"sinful". 'Tis said in an old, old manu- 
script "that the first great, horrid sin committed 
on earth, the sin that caused so much misery on 
the earth, and nearly destroyed the human race 
was "adultery", compulsory adultery, and the 
adultrous race was cursed by a law of retardation 
(on thy belly shalt thou go, etc.) and enmity was 



74 IN THE BEGINNING 

put between the true white race and the race of 
the adulterers. 

In the old manuscripts it is said that there were 
two Adams, a white and a dark Adam. Abel 
represented the white Adam and Cain represented 
the dark Adam. They were both called "Sons 
of God". Being half human Cain was awakened 
from the slumber of the old Adam (pre-human), 
and became a ' ' Tree of Knowledge "as I have 
explained. When Cain was grown, the Bible 
says, "Now lest he (Cain), who represented the 
animal Adam, put forth his hand and take and 
eat of the Tree of Life and live forever, he was 
turned out of the garden". Abel was to them a 
"Tree of Life". Now lest Cain should cross 
with the true race, "Abel's", and degrade them 
to the semi-human, Abel, who was a prophet, was 
directed to command Cain to leave the garden, 
and Genesis says, ' i Cain went to the Land of Nod, 
and took a wife". "Nod" signifies mindless, 
asleep, drowsy, without intellect. Cain went and 
took an animal in human form for a wife, and of 
them arose a large tribe of semi-humans, quad- 
roons, etc., and many of them were mere animals 
and they worshipped Cain as a God, and in 
Genesis they are called the "Sons of God". 
Cain was to them as God. Genesis 3:22 says, 
"Behold, the man is become as one of us," etc. 
"Man" here signifies Cain, who though a beast, 
was a man. Abel, the prophet, was taught to 
build altars, and cook his meat and not eat it 
raw as the animals did, and to give thanks. In 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 75 

time Abel's tribe united with the tribe called 
"Eve" and Cain's tribe united with the tribe 
called. "Adam", the animal Adam. Here, 
you see, we have two races: one is pure 
human, white, with intellect and spirit- 
brain added and immortal life; and the other 
is dark, semi-humans, with evil natures, and 
the most of them are mere mortals. Yet both 
races were derived from a human mother. Some 
will say, "Why are not both races equal?" Be- 
cause, as I told you, both the parents of the true 
race were selected and prepared. In the old 
glyphs, both races claim to be celestials and ' ' Sons 
of God". One race was pure human, gentle and 
spiritual in their natures, and the other race was 
only part human; they were a strong giant race, 
beastly and licentious in their natures, having 
very little intellect or spirit-brain which made 
them more evil than an animal. They were sub- 
ject to Cain's rule, who was their God and king 
and was worshipped by them; they were cunning, 
cruel and crafty. In times both tribes had be- 
come very numerous, but Cain's far outnumbered 
Abel's, Abel's represented the true Adam and 
the Tree of Life, and taught them of immortality 
and creation, and Cain's race represented the old 
serpent, the animal Adam, and the Tree of Knowl- 
edge, — prophetically. 

After a long number of years the climate began 
to grow frigid, and Abel's tribe migrated back to 
where the old tribe of Cain's race were located; 
and they (as Adam) were told "not to eat of the 



76 IN THE BEGINNING 

Tree of Knowledge, Cain in the midst of the gar- 
den, for if they did they would snrely die". 
"And there were giants in those days" (Cain's 
race), and Genesis 6:1 says, "And it came to pass, 
when men began to multiply on the earth, and 
daughters were born unto them, that the Sons of 
God (Cain's tribe) saw the daughters of men, 
that they were fair and they took them wives of 
all they chose, the same became mighty men of 
renown". Here Abel's race are called "men" as 
"man" or "manas" signifies one with spiritual 
brain and intellect. And Cain's race took wives 
of Abel's race, and the cross race became mighty 
men; 

By crossing with Abel's race, many of the 
crossed race became or acquired sufficient in- 
tellect to be considered "mighty" in war and 
rude mechanical arts. Genesis says, "Adam fell 
into a deep sleep, and the Lord took one of his 
ribs, and formed Eve and gave her to Adam" 
(esoteric). I have explained how Eve was 
formed, but the allegory is double. By crossing 
with lower types of pre-human, Cain's race, who 
were called "Adam", being the oldest form of 
human, fell into a deep sleep (esoteric). That 
is, they fell by losing the higher brain and spirit 
immortal and while they were asleep. * Abel's 
race, who represented Eve, and was derived from 
the true Adam, as I have explained, came near 
the garden where Cain's were, and Cain's race, 
who were giants, and called "Sons of God", took 
wives of all they chose, and their eyes (Cain's) 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 77 

were opened, * and they became mighty, as 
I have explained. Cain 's race were dark and 
ugly from crossing with lower types, and Abel's 
race were white and beautiful, and as 'tis said in 
Genesis, Cain's race, who were called "Sons of 
God", crossed with the white men, and the same 
became "mighty men". They were warriors and 
destroyed the other tribes, and after destroying 
Abel's tribe, mostly they became the dominant 
race. And by the cross of the two races, the true 
race, * "Abel's, called "Adam", fell to the 
level of semi-humans,' (except a few who escaped 
contamination). 

The Atlanteans, who were descended from Cain 
say "that while their fathers were asleep", as I 
have explained, "the Lord brought other weak 
mothers and brothers to them, and they took wives 
and lived one with another, and their eyes were 
opened" (mentally). 

Abel's race "weak" because they were smaller in 
stature, and were kind, affectionate and spiritual 
minded. But Cain's race had all the evil pro- 
pensities of the old beast, and were ever at war, 
or enmity with the true race. By crossing with 
Abel's race, their eyes were opened, and seeing 
Abel's race sacrifice to an unknown power, Cain's 
built altars and made sacrifices also. But the 
Bible says, "The Lord had not respect to their 
sacrifices". And Cain complained to the Lord, 
who said "If thou doest well, shaft thou not 
prosper?" . "And if thou does not well, sin lieth 
at the door". That was a prophecy. Cain was 



78 IN THE BEGINNING 

so jealous of Abel that lie made war with his 
tribes, and exterminated all but a few, who were 
dispersed. He sacrificed them on their own altars 
and ate them, hence the name "Cannibal" — Cain 
killed and ate AbeL 

In our Bible, the tribes of Cain and Abel, 
are represented by two persons only. 

Here we see the two races, and the enmity be- 
tween them as told in Genesis. Old writers say, 
"There were two 'Adams', a dark and a light 
one, (Cain and Abel) ". The Mormon genesis 
says, "Man was created on a high spiritual plane, 
and fell to the animal plane". I have told you 
how he fell. Genesis, "And unto thee shall his 
(Abel's) desire be, and thou (Cain) shall rule 
over him". That was a prophecy. The "fail" 
spoken of in Genesis was a double allegory as I 
have explained. Cain, of the animal Adam, by 
crossing with the old stock, lost the human brain, 
derived from Eve, and his tribe fell into a deep 
sleep, until Abel's tribe, who represented Eve, 
came to them and by crossing with them their 
eyes were open and Abel, the prophet, said to his 
people "Behold the man (Cain's race) has be- 
come like unto us, knowing good and evil ' '. 

Genesis 3:14 says, "Because thou hast done 
this, on thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt 
thou eat all the days of thy life", and he put a 
mark upon him". God put the mark of servility 
and inferiority on Cain's race; and we find by 
reading the history of the world that the mark 
still rests on that race wherever we find them and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 79 

they creep spiritually; they have not a true 
knowledge of spiritual things, though they al- 
ways strive to rule and oppose progress. Genesis : 
"I will put enmity between thee and the woman 
and between thy seed and her seed. It shall 
bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel". 
"What did the serpent do to cause God to condemn 
him to crawl and eat dust all his life""? In the 
first place, one of the old stock took the perfect 
human Eve and the "Son of the Morning" that 
should have been a perfect man was a cross be- 
tween the human and the beast, and in the next 
place Cain's race, (the serpent) took wives of 
Abel's race, who represented Eve or woman and 
bruised their heads to the level of the semi- 
humans, or dead race, and after that, Cain's race 
committed the sin of cannibalism on the true race 
and took possession of the world. 

Genesis, verse, says, "And Cain rose up and 
slew his brother Abel". Cain here represents 
Cain's race, and Abel represents Abel's race as 'tis 
said in Genesis. 

Genesis says "that Adam lived a thousand 
years ' '. But we see that the true Adam, by cross- 
ing with Cain's race were fallen and literally dead 
as a nation. A few were dispersed, and the 
crossed race, who remained with Cain, were sub- 
ject to Cain and his race, as was told in Genesis, 
4:7. "And thou, (Cain) shalt rule over him 
(Abel)". I have told you how and when Adam 
fell. Old writers say, "that the dark Adam fell 
first, as I have explained. But the old serpent, 



80 IN THE BEGINNING 

semi-human race of the animal Adam, lived and 
ruled a thousand years. Cain was the "Prince of 
the powers of darkness", as darkness covered the 
earth after the death of Abel, the prophet and 
teacher, the i ■ Tree of Life ' '. These ' - dark ages ' ' 
lasted a thousand years. The sacrifice of Abel's 
race is called by old writers • ■ the great sacrifice ' ' 
and commemorated as the "morning sacrifice' '. 
Man must be resurrected and redeemed from the 
fall to the condition of the true Adam, to his 
normal condition, a divine man. 

During the reign of Satan, "the Prince of the 
powers of darkness", the true Adam was fallen, 
and the Bible says, "They forgot God and wor- 
shipped the beast". They worshipped Cain or 
his image, and most of their rites and ceremonies 
were beastly as figurative and svmbolic (eso- 
teric). Cain and his people, called "the old 
beast, and Prince of the powers of darkness", 
ruled and governed the world a thousand years 
instead of God, to whom he (Cain's race) were 
enemies. They are the one called "Satan, adver- 
sary and devil". 

At the time of the flood, man would have been 
on a very high physical and spiritual plane, if 
they had not fallen, but they became so degraded 
and licentious that God said, "I will bring a flood 
and destroy both man and beast ' '. This proves 
that man fell by crossing with the beast. Most 
of them were literally spiritually dead, and were 
swept away by the flood, and the few who re- 
mained were dwarfed in their understanding by 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 81 

the beastly rule of Cain's race. We are told that 
only a few were saved from the flood and by them 
the world must be re-peopled and restored to its 
original high state. 

Mr. Russell in his ' ' Millennium Dawn" inquires, 
' ' Was death a penalty or a consequence ! ' ' Death 
was a consequence caused by the fall, and as God 
punished them with death by the flood, it became 
a penalty and by the infliction of the penalty the 
sin was atoned for. But as man was made for im- 
mortality, (he must be restored to the perfect con- 
dition from which he fell) as nno thing but perfec- 
tion has immortal life. In the beginning man was 
perfect, (as man) and on the progressive plane, 
but instead of progressing he fell to the animal 
plane, which is death. Progression and retro- 
gression are two great laws in nature, given for 
special purposes. There is no inertia. Matter 
in some states appears to be inert. A rock ap- 
pears to be inert, but it is slowly undergoing de- 
composition. If man does not progress until he" 
reaches the ultimate, he will retrogress to a lower 
plane. But if man lrves the true life, the voice 
of the spirit will lead him in the progressive path 
until he reaches the ultimate of man's existence 
(Immortal Life). 

The first government on earth was a "Theoc- 
racy". God ruled till the fall; then Satan (Cain's 
race) ruled as a monarch a thousand ^sears, until 
the flood. By the fall man lost the perfect human 
form and the perfect intellect and spirit-brain, 
which contains the soul, and as evolution signi- 



82 IN THE BEGINNING 

fies to evolve a higher from a lower, man must be 
redeemed by the slow process of evolution physi- 
cally, which process has been in operation ever 
since the flood. The evolution of man is a very 
interesting and important subject; for that reason 
Israel was told not to cross with the lower races. 

One of the writings, translated from the San- 
scrit, says "that when the animal had arrived by 
evolution to a certain stage of development the 
"immortal thinkers" stepped in and took- pos- 
session of the bodies prepared for them". 
"Thinker" in Sanscrit signifies one with mind, 
intellect and immortal spirit. They gave the 
esoteric, hidden side of the description that I 
gave you in the above. I told you that Abel's 
race, having the immortal spirit and brain, were 
called "Immortal Thinkers", and as I told you 
they "stepped in" or crossed with Cain's race, 
who were mostly mere human ancient forms, and 
admissible awoke them. 

In one sense and by re-incarnating or bap- 
tizing with the Holy Ghost, which was part of 
Christ's mission. 

The same writer says, "They took possession 
in the third sub-race". This is not explained 
correctly in their books. I will explain. Adam 
and Eve was the first race, Abel was the second 
race, and Cain formed a third race by a cross with 
Abel's race. At the same time Cain was a sub- 
race or cross between the beast and human, as I 
have explained. Theosophists generally do not 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 83 

understand the above. They do not get at the 
esoteric, hidden meaning. 

Another translation of Sanscrit says: "When 
the animal had arrived by evolution to the human 
form, the 'egoes' or spirit entities descended 
and took possession in the fourth race". This 
has the same signification as the other, only the 
translator made a mistake. 

Madam Blavatsky, the great Russian author 
and compiler, says, "If we can prove the evolu- 
tion of the spiritual man, as we can the evolution 
of the physical man, we can prove the evolution of 
both". Well, we can prove both the evolueion 
of the "physical and spiritual man." Madam 
also says, "that the fables of the mythapaic ages 
will be found to have but 'allegorized' the great- 
est truth of geology and anthropology, and in 
their fables, science will find their 'missing 
links' ". 

In Darwin's "Evidences of the Evolution of 
Man from the Animal" there was a link missing; 
he could not find any animal suitable to take the 
place between man and the gorilla, etc. I have 
shown you the link in the "pre-human" Adam; 
the old animal Adam, that caused man to fall is 
the link that Darwin could not find. After years 
of research, I have found the link and the fall 
of Adam and place them before you. 

There are still found in parts of the eartli, ani- 
mals in the human form, but without his intelli- 
gence. They are the remains of human models. 
There were millions of animals in imperfect human 



84 IN THE BEGINNING 

form on the earth previous to man, who were de 
stroyed by the flood. There are a great many 
interesting facts connected with the fall to be ex 
plained, but not here. (The influence of the fall 
is shown in all the Bible history and in mankind 
on the earth.) 

Genesis says, "Man was formed of the dust of 
the earth". Yes, we can prove that he was by 

"evolution", and not as an old negro preacher 
told his congregation, saying, "De Lord, he make 
Adam ob de dust of de arf, and he stan' him by 
de fence to dry". "Well," said one of his lis 
teners, "who make de fence"? "Put dat nigger 
out", said the speaker, "he is a rebelutionist". 
I heard an evangelist say one evening in the pul- 
pit, "I don't understand the Bible, and never ex- 
pect to*", and I heard De Willett say one evening 
in the pulpit, "I don't know what religion is and 
no one else does". * Then what do they teach? 

Genesis says, "that a mark was put upon Cain's 
race", and by crossing and re-crossing many of 
us have the "mark of the beast" in our natures 
which must be eradicated, and the human, in 
tellectual, spiritual man must harmonize and be 
come as perfect as Christ, or a perfect likeness of 
him, then the redemption will be perfect. 

The old manuscripts and traditions of India are 
being translated and brought out to the world, 
but they are so cumbered with comments, and the 
opinions of the writers that very few persons can 
extract and understand the truth. But the time 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 85 

has come when the truth must be revealed to the 
people. 

* Eeligion is righteousness as taught by the 
commands. 

We send missionaries to India to teach them 
religion. They have manuscripts in their temples 
that teach primogenesis, cosmogenesis, the fall, 
the curse put on Cain, the flood, the birth, life and 
death of Christna or Christ, his mission, his sec- 
ond coming, and the new era or cycle that will 
commence in about one hundred years. But the 
truth is hidden from the people by superstition, 
allegory and the opinions of commentators, etc. 
Most ordinary people might read their books col- 
lectively (called theosophy) and never find the 
truth. But according to my understanding and 
instruction, a new era has commenced (with man 
on a higher plane). And according to the teach- 
ings of theosophy, a new cycle will commence 
soon, with man on a higher plane. There we 
agree. But even theosophists do not understand 
their writings, as I have explained them. 

The white, Caucasian, represents the true 
Adam. The Chinese and other dark races repre- 
sent the "yellow Adam" (Cain's crosses). And 
the "nagas", negroes represent the cross between 
the ugly, black beast and one of Cain's crosses) — 
(Adam's fall produced those mongrel races, that 
cause so much discord on the earth). 

By reading the "genesis" of all peoples we find 
that their "genesis" agrees with the Genesis m 
our Bible, as I have explained it. 



86 IN THE BEGINNING 



CHAPTER (5). 

Science and Religion, on Both Sides of the 
Question. 

All law, all life, all principles, every manifesta- 
tion we see around us is by science. Religion is 
a principle of ''eternal life" and life is by 
science. 

The war so long waged between science and re- 
ligion in the Middle Ages kept the people in 
ignorance and was caused by the arbitrary rule 
of the Church, and proves the ignorance of both 
scientists and church at that time, as science and 
religion are one. The universe was formed by 
science; God having perfect knowledge and power, 
formed laws by which He created all things. The 
Church and people did not understand those 
things. In some of the oriental writing we find 
a more comprehensive description of creation 
than is given in our genesis, though it is given in 
symbol and allegory, not explained to the people 
and only a few can comprehend the manuscripts. 

Our Bible is a large book and a full book, and 
yet it is only an abridgement of the writings called 
"Bible" and it would be presumptuous to suppose 
that all knowledge and wisdom was contained in 
one book. God's knowledge is infinite and His 
wisdom equals His knowledge. I heard "De Wil- 
lett" say one evening in the pulpit, "I don't be- 
lieve anything outside-of the Bible". How sim- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 87 

pie! Shall we prescribe limits to God! We read 
in the Bible "A word came to Isaiah, or some 
other prophet", and we believe it, though it was 
given thousands of years ago and comes to us 
"hearsay", and we really do not know who wrote 
a part of the Bible. We take it by faith and not 
by knowledge. Now, if some one should say at 
this time "A word came to me" would it not be 
just as reliable as the word given thousands of 
years ago, though not contained in the Bible? It 
would be a part of the Bible as Bible signifies 
"Babel, babble, talk, logus, word". The "Word 
or talk of God". It is narrow-minded to suppose 
that God can not commune with you or me, if we 
are prepared to receive it, as well as He could 
with Abraham and others. 

I told you that as all our religious opinions are 
founded on creation, the fall and redemption of 
man, it is necessary for us to know the truth. I 
explained that partly in the first chapter. But it 
will take many chapters to explain fully. I will 
not only explain, but will prove to you the truth 
of my statements by other writings, yet I had my 
genesis written previous to reading those I will 
quote from and I was very, very much astonished 
to find them agree with mine in the essentials. 

If we seek for data in the recognized fields of 
positive knowledge, for scientific facts in matter, 
which sliall serve as stepping stones by which we 
can intellectually gain a knowledge of celestial 
and heavenly things, we enlarge our understand- 
ing and clear the mysteries that darken our minds. 



88 IN THE BEGINNING 

To understand religion the people require more 
knowledge. With knowledge and faith man can 
reason to the truth; but without knowledge, faith 
is blind and the people of this generation of elec- 
tricity and light are not willing to walk blindly. 
We are struggling for the truth, for a higher plat- 
form, but there is none higher than the one laid 
by the Christ when on the earth, but the people do 
not understand, they want more true knowledge. 

In the hazy glimmerings of remote ages man 
intuitively saw tlie higher spheres, and the en- 
tranced poet and inspired artist and scientist, and 
the struggling minds of men yearned for more 
light and more positive knowledge of the un- 
known abysses of space. But he had no positive 
knowledge, especially after the fall, and it was 
natural for the individual mind to be narrow in its 
conceptions, because its opinions were mainly de- 
rived from outward observations of the sky with- 
out the aid of the telescope. But now, when the 
human race is no longer in its infancy, the in- 
dividual reason can take in larger conceptions, 
derived from discoveries of laws and principles 
governing and regulating the stupendous com- 
binations of infinite harmonies. 

But I must return to Genesis. We read "God 
created the heavens and the earth, He made the 
stars also, and God said, 'Let there be a firmament 
in the midst of the waters, etc. ' ' ' I told you that 
the true genesis was covered by allegory; we 
have the hidden side. Yet, there is more in this 
Genesis than meets the general eye. The allegory 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 89 

takes in all of Darwin and more. He sees only 
nature in creation and leaves out the mind and 
governing wisdom. Even Bob Ingersoll's bor- 
rowed opinions do not undermine Genesis, when 
the allegory is understood. Yet it is only a sketch 
of creation, written in the offhand style of a lec- 
turer, without giving a description of the process 
of creating, and without a thought of primo or 
cosmo-genesis, which I have explained in another 
place. 

The people of the Middle Ages supposed that 
the earth was flat, and the center of the universe, 
and the firmament or sky, was formed like a cylin- 
der, with the sun, moon and stars fixed in the sur- 
face; and they thought the earth was like an isl- 
and surrounded by water, which they called "the 
river of ocean", and they supposed the cylinder- 
like firmament, with the sun, moon and stars, 
revolved around the earth as the centre of all 
things. They had no knowledge of the relation- 
ship and sympathy between the earth and spheres 
of immensity. They thought the universe as 
narrow as their minds, and their ideas of Grod 
were as limited as their knowledge of His creative 
power and laws and process of forming or creat- 
ing. To them the earth was flat and surrounded 
by water, and all the rest of the universe revolved 
around this little speck of an earth. 

For hundreds of years that was the opinion of 
the people, under the rule of the church, and if a 
man with a broader intellect looked round upon 
the manifestations of wisdom and knowledge and 



90 IN THE BEGINNING 

power, and attempted to teach the possibility of 
a vast universe and that our world was only one 
of a number that revolved round our sun as a 
center, and that the earths were all round and that 
the sun itself revolved on its axis, and attempted 
to make an assertion of progressive science, he 
was condemned as a "heretic", because his asser- 
tions were not in the Bible. Hence the church 
and science took different paths. The church 
took the path supposed to be given in Genesis, 
and science spread her wings like an eagle. She 
explored the earth from east to west and from 
north to south, and by the aid of the telescope 
she explored the heavens, step by step, until 
reason, philosophy and revelations reached to 
her a hand and elevated the scientists to a knowl- 
edge of the great "central sun" and "heaven" 
and by studying the science of the universe and 
the religious principle, we find that science aud 
religion are one. In old symbolism it is called 
the "wisdom religion". 

One of the Ptolomies and Hypargus of Alex- 
andria, Egypt, during the reign of Adrian and 
Antoninus of Rome, made considerable progress 
in astronomical science; but it was not received 
except by a few, and the world still held to the 
narrow opinions of the church until recently, as 
taught in the Bible. 

In the early ages of the world, the people had 
a knowledge of "primo and cosmo-genesis". 
But after the fall, only a few persons (the priest- 
hood) kept the true knowledge and when all 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 91 

knowledge was forbidden by the clmrch, even 
the key to the true knowledge was lost by the 
church. The church condemned science as a 
damnable heresy and Pope Diocletian, Emperor 
of Rome, decreed that any person believing that 
the earth was round or reading any books pre- 
scribed by him should be punished with the in- 
quisition and death. All knowledge was forbid- 
den and all books destroyed because the church- 
pretended to consider them to be the "fruit of 
the forbidden tree of knowledge", and the world 
fell into darkness, superstition and ignorance and 
the church held men's lives and intellects under 
her feet; even the souls of men were in chains and 
subject to the will of pope and priest. 

Those Dark Ages lasted about a thousand years 
arid the church and people are just emerging into 
the twilight of truth and the dawn of the day that 
is coming. Combined circumstances broke the 
power of darkness and set men free, and the 
seventh day, of a thousand years each, is dawn- 
ing. 

Scientific astronomy, by its marvelous discov- 
eries, has expanded men's minds in respect to the 
magnitude and planetary splendors of the uni- 
verse and it is now conceded by the most unpro- 
gressive parts of the church that instead of the 
earth being the center of all things, our solar 
system is only one of the millions that form the 
astral system called the "milky way". I heard 
Dr. Willett say one day in the pulpit, "The idea 
of God being way out in the center of our solar 



92 IN THE BEGINNING 

system". How ignorant the man mnst be on 
that subject. Instead of being in the center of 
our system, God's throne is countless thousands 
of miles from here, in the center of a " universe ' ' 
so large that the finite mind can not grasp its 
dimensions. 

A certain writer says: "Where are we after 
all, but in the center of a system, whose circum- 
ference is thirty-five thousand times as far from 
us as Syrius, and beyond whose circuit bound- 
less infinitude stretches unfathomed". He says: 
"The positiveness of ignorance seals the soul 
against influx or commune of God's spirit and 
wisdom". But to a heart that loves truth, the 
over-reaching heavens come very near in their 
gracious light and serene beauty. Dull minds 
sleep behind dull senses; but star-eyed persons 
possess minds shining full of heavenly splen- 
dors". But all minds can not come in rapport 
with the fount of knowledge for certain reasons. 
But great changes have taken place since Genesis 
was written; the world has moved forward; the 
nations have come closer together and science 
has progressed, as by electricity, in the last cen- 
tury, opening new pathways to new fields of 
knowledge. With all this knowledge before us, 
will the reasoners and scholars of the present 
age hold on to the narrow views of the Middle 
Ages that the earth is flat and the center of all 
things, and that God made it out of nothing, in 
six of our solar days, as we read in our catechism? 
The earth was not created out of nothing. Noth- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 93 

ing, absolutely nothing, does not exist and the 
Bible does not say the world was made out of 
nothing. Create, signifies "to form". God and 
matter co-existed eternally and God created all 
thing by laws, as I will explain by and by. Our 
Bible says: "Man was formed out of the dust of 
the earth". Man has misconstrued the Bible. 
I told you in the first chapter how man was 
formed, but I did not explain minutely. I left 
those complex explanations for another place. 

We have many lessons around us to instruct 
and teach us how man was formed or created. 
Look ! What an exhibition of power and wisdom 
and laws of development are placed before us 
even in the creation of a frog. If I ask you, 
"Who created the frog", perhaps you will say, 
"God". I say, "Yes". But howf Go look in 
that pond over there! What do you see? Why, 
myriads of little black creatures with clumsy 
bodies and heads and tails resembling fish, and 
they swim and float, like fish in the water. Go a 
few weeks later and what do you see? The 
"pollywogs" are all gone, and a number of crea- 
tures with large, bright eyes and arms and hands 
resembling man's; and lower limbs also; and see 
how they jump and walk on all fours, like a child 
in his first attempts at locomotion; and listen! 
they have a language! How they sing in their 
joy as they bask in the sun. Listen! they have a 
bass, tenor and soprano, and some attempt alto. 
But don't be alarmed, I don't mean to insinuate 
that man descended from a. frog, or a monkey 



94 IN THE BEGINNING 

either. But from the frog we learn a lesson of 
progressive development, assisted by another law 
called 'evolution". Those laws are used in cre- 
ating or forming, as scientists have learned, and 
we are not prohibited from learning them, if they 
are not in the Bible. 

We can not prescribe limits to God, and if He 
wishes to make new revelations to the world, to 
whom must He make them? To the church? 
They will not believe it is not in the Bible, and 
if a revelation is given to one outside of the church, 
the churches combine in condemnation. Then 
who may receive a new revelation? "Oh!" the 
churches will say, "There is no new revelation, 
or if there were, it would certainly be given to 
the church". If one is right, the rest are all 
wrong. The old church thought that all revela- 
tions were given to them, and when the Father 
made new revelations by the Son, what did they 
do ? Why, they maltreated Him, as much as they 
well could, then crucified Him. 

And today, in this day of professed enlighten- 
ment, Grod sends many new revelations to the 
world and the churches are the first to condemn 
them because "they are not in the Bible". They 
have been shadowed forth hundreds of years ago. 
Why do not the leaders of the church explain the 
Bibie? 

The great evangelist "McCurry", when he was 
here last, said, "I do not understand the Bible, and 
never expected to, and that no one could under- 
stand it". The first people kept their knowledge 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 95 

in symbols, understood only by the initiated, and 
the translators of the Bible have not explained 
it clearly. But when we understand, it is very 
clear. The churches compel the people to obey 
laws, rituals and church discipline, and believe 
nothing outside of their teaching, under pain of 
ex-communication and disgrace and thus prohibit 
all progress in the churches. 

There is very little preached at this time but 
" Christ" and that He is coming, and yet, if any- 
one should tell you of the time of His coming, 
would you believe it? No, you would say, "It is 
not in the Bible". But it is in the Bible, and the 
signs foretold are before us daily and the people 
mock at them. But I tell you that Christ is here 
already, and I have seen Him in His own person. 
Do you believe me! But He has not come with 
the power and glory that will accompany Him 
in about one hundred years. Then the Father 
will come and the Son will come, with great 
power and glory and all flesh shall see the 
"Glory of God in the flesh". Those things were 
revealed to me by a word or voice, and a word 
said to me, "Not only the Son, but the glory of 
God has come to the earth already". - But the 
people, all joined to their idols, do not understand. 

I will return to Genesis. We read "that God 
created the heavens and the earth", but we have 
learned that instead of one earth, there are count- 
less millions of earths. 

In the beginning men were taught of the mys- 
teries of creation, etc., but after the fall men's 



93 IN THE BEGINNING 

minds were not competent to take in and under- 
stand the grand idea of a vast, illimitable uni- 
verse. To them the earth was flat and the stars 
were candles and the sun and moon were lamps, 
suspended in the firmament or sky. "Yet", a 
certain writer says: "looking into the past ages, 
and marking the laborious march of man's his- 
tory with regard to his acquisition of positive 
knowledge, I find accurate conceptions, more or 
less mixed with the reflections of superstition 
and colorings of fancy". Those people were very 
superstitious, but there was a time, previous to 
the fall, when they were instructed in the truth. 
But they lost the true knowledge mostly and 
kept only vague allegories. But we have risen 
from the fall, and can understand the old and 
new revelations. 

The cosmogonies of illimitable space are fast 
coming into popular education with a more com- 
prehensive, knowledge of higher things and true 
religion. In past times, the people believed not 
only that the earth was the center of all things, 
but that it was created out of nothing and formed 
in six of our solar days. Must we believe those 
narrow opinions? I think not. 

I have shown you the flat earth and the solar 
system and the folly in believing the earth to be 
the center of all things. Now, I will take the 
first sentence in Genesis, "God created the 
heavens". It is estimated by astronomers that 
the "milky way" or visible heavens is composed 
of millions of suns, many of them being many 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 97 

times larger than ours, with their planets revolv- 
ing round them. Our solar system is supposed 
to he on the inner side of the circle of the ' ' milky 
way", and is but a speck compared with the 
stellar system. From the magnitude and har- 
monious arrangement of the stellar universe, it is 
estimated that by comparison with our solar sys- 
tem beings like ours inhabit the millions of 
worlds that revolve in our "milky way", and it 
is supposed from certain data that two billions, 
nineteen trillions and one hundred millions of 
worlds circle round suns, visible to us in the 
firmament; and calculating the number of in- 
habitants on those earths by the number on ours, 
it is estimated that there are sixty quadrillions, 
five hundred and seventy-three thousand trillions 
of people on those earths. Now compare those 
magnificent manifestations with the narrow 
views and opinions of the church, derived from 
misunderstanding "Genesis". The churches 
have been steady to their lights, nevertheless the 
people have been kept in ignorance and darkness. 
The other day a scientist and church man were 
conversing about the possibility of the earths in 
our solar system being inhabited. "Well", said 
the church man, "If they are inhabited, that kills 
our Christian religion, for Christ could not go to 
all those earths to save the people". How 
ignorant some people are. They still think that 
the earth is flat, and the "New Jerusalem" the 
only city in heaven. Heaven is boundless, as I 
have explained in another place. 



98 IN THE BEGINNING 

Our solar system is one of millions that form 
the milky way and our astral system belongs to 
the sixth circle of suns that revolve round the 
great central sun of the universe. Inside of that 
is a fifth circle, and a fourth, and a third, and a 
second, and a first, and outside of the sixth there 
is a seventh forming. Science and revelation 
have revealed to us a great universe with mil- 
lions of suns and systems and spheres, and the 
sublime idea of a heaven so large that man can 
not comprehend its glorious and boundless re- 
sources; and in our expanded knowledge of truth 
pertaining to the universe and creation we have 
lost sight of Genesis, as given in our Bible. 
While science has expanded our knowledge of 
material things, the religious idea of the church 
has been kept in chains by the ignorant teachers. 
Many are so earnest in teaching sectarianism that 
they lose sight of the grand morale and simplicity 
of the true religion as taught by the Christ. 

A certain writer says, "It is my impression 
that the millions of suns and systems, notwith- 
standing their amazing and overwhelming vast- 
ness and sublime beauty, are nothing more than 
a look into the divine temple". I have given 
you just a look into the vestibule of the grand 
temple of the universe. In another place I have 
explained more fully the creation, evolution, gen- 
esis, primo-genesis, cosmo-genesis, etc. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 99 

CHAPTER (6). 
Electricity and Light. 

Astronomy is the oldest and youngest of the 
sciences. It combines all sciences. The term 
science is derived from the Latin ' ' scio ' ', to know 
In a general sense it is a knowledge of truth or 
facts ; bnt in its most perfect sense, it is the power 
io enact or create, or produce those facts, and that 
power belongs to G-od alone, who is the master 
scientist. 

In philosophy it is a knowledge of certain prin- 
ciples, based on truth in correct or scientific 
order, as mathematics, chemistry, philosophy, 
metaphysics, etc. Mathematics is from the 
Latin and treats of quantity, measure, magnitude. 
Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, 
conic sections, are also branches of mathematics. 
Chemistry is from the Arabic, "kama", to con- 
ceal. In olden times it was called "alchemy", 
the art of converting base metals into gold, etc. 
It was practiced by the philosophers of the Mid- 
dle Ages, with other arts called "science". The 
old philosophers supposed that everything in the 
universe was composed of one substance which 
they called "Darkness" or "Space". I will 
speak of that in another chapter. 

Diocletian caused the Books of Alchemy to be 
burned. They were cabalistic and understood 
only by the initiated. Their doctrines were 
esoteric, secret. A certain scientist at this time 



100 IN THE BEGINNING 

says: lie can convert certain metals into gold by 
pressure. I don't agree with them in supposing 
that all tilings are composed of one substance. 
To be explained. 

Chemistry, as now used, is the science which 
explains the intimate, mutual action of all bodies, 
and also treats of analysis or decomposition, and 
synthesis or recombination, which are the two 
great principles in nature. In the old philoso- 
phies, now known collectively by the term "the- 
osophy", those principles were called " God's" 
or attributes of God. One was the creator and 
the other was the destroyer. 

In old times philosophy was called- "wisdom". 
The term "philosophy" is derived from the 
Greek, "to love wisdom", but particularly speak- 
ing, it is to investigate or acquire knowledge by 
reasoning of effects from causes. The old time 
people made a study of those sciences hid in their 
temples and were called "kedim or wise men". 

The philosophy which treats of God is called 
"theology" and that which treats of nature, 
"physics", comprising natural philosophy and 
natural history, and that which treats of man is 
called "ethics", or moral philosophy. That which 
treats of mind is called intellectual or mental phil- 
osophy or metaphysics. It is the natural hypoth- 
esis or system on which natural effects are ex- 
plained. Metaphysics is from the Greek and is 
said to have been given to science by Aristotle, 
one of the Greek philosophers, who considered the 
science of matter to be first in order of study, and 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA • 101 

the science of mind or metaphysics to be second. 

The science of "ontology" or essence, quantity 
or attributes of being, was much studied by the 
old philosophers, and the result of those studies 
are all being brought before the people by the- 
osophists, but the results are not always correct 
as we find. "Cosmology", treats of the laws of 
matter; "psychology" treats of mind; "pneu- 
matology" treats of spirit; "theodicy" claims to 
treat of God, his essence and attributes; modern 
theosophy claims to understand the truth of 
those philosophies or attributes of being; spirit- 
ualists are seeking for the same truths, but the 
churches are fossilized and unprogressive, they 
stand nearly in the same tracks they were left in 
by the "Dark Ages". 

Those divisions of philosophy, once studied in 
the schools of the philosophers, are now resolved 
into two parts, that of physics or the science of 
matter, and metaphysics or the science of mind 
and spirit. Those philosophers, who lived before 
the Christian era, had not God so clearly revealed 
to them as at or after the birth of Christ. Many 
of the old philosophers supposed there was but 
one substance matter : ■ ■ God ' ' from which or from 
whom all things were formed. Our catechism 
says: "that God created all things (the world) 
out of nothing". It is difficult to say which 
opinion is the most unreasonable. Those old 
philosophers sought God in his works, measuring* 
Him by the limited knowledge they had or could 
have from the works of nature, which are only 



102 IN THE BEGINNING 

manifestations of his power and laws, and thongh 
revealed to the Israelites, other nations did not 
recognize Him as a being of form and speech. 
Bnt in the beginning, in prehistoric ages, God 
made Himself manifest to the people and we find 
by reading a few scraps of manuscript. The old 
commentators and cnrions ideas of God, as I have 
explained in another place. 

Science is the basis of all law, which laws are 
formed by perfect knowledge, and religion is a 
principle or law of perfection, moral and spir- 
itual and governs the universe. 

Colbert says: "The first and greatest of the 
recorded enactments of creation is: "Let there be 
light". Here he speaks only of material light. 
There is a great principle involved in light, which 
I will explain in another place. Material light is 
of matter, and that presupposes that God and 
matter are co-existent. Science teaches that all 
space is filled with matter, (the spiritual atmos- 
phere permeates space) and there can't be a 
vacuum and star-chemistry indicates to us a 
part of the conditions under which matter exists 
around us in the universe, as mathematics does 
of space, and Colbert says: "In order to compre- 
hend those deductions it is necessary to know 
something of that force that lies at the founda- 
tion of matter". The force that underlies the 
material universe and so much sought after by 
scientists, is electricity combined with other ele- 
ments. Electricity is the great moving factor of 
the material universe, it is the soul of the ma- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 103 

terial world and is controlled and governed by 
creative laws. The first fact about light is that 
it moves. Eadiated light proceeds from hot 
bodies, a cold body may reflect but not radiate 
light. The centers of all suns are liquid fire and 
their bodies are of liquid metal or minerals in 
constant motion. Colbert supposes that light is 
immaterial. I think he is mistaken as light con- 
tains what is called "the seven primary colors. " 
The sun's atmosphere is extremely hot and pure; 
at a certain distance from the sun the atmos- 
phere remains in a seeming state of inertia, called 
the "inter-planetary spaces". There are differ- 
ent opinions about the material composing those 
spaces. The sun is a mass of pure metals in a 
high state of heat; no moisture can come near it. 
Some theosophists suppose that the center of our 
sun is hollow and that God dwells in the center. 
The body of the sun is composed of hot molten 
metal and the center is a portion of liquid fire 
of great heat and force. If possible that is a 
higher force than the electrical. 

Sir Isaac Newton, the great "philosopher", dis- 
covered that a ray of light contained the seven 
primary colors. The colors he speaks of are a 
reflection of the rings of gases, contained in or 
composing the sun's atmosphere. 

The material world appears to us under a great 
variety of forms, but chemistry has shown to us 
that those forms are built from a comparatively 
small number of elements. Some of the old 
writers on philosophy assert that there is but one 



104 IN THE BEGINNING 

element from which all things are composed, and 
some writers assert at this time that God com- 
prises all things. In the beginning the elements 
were combined in one mass. I have explained 
that in cos-mo-genesis. 

Angstrong, Eoscoe and Volzner discovered that 
a burning body gave a spectrum, unmarked by 
lines; but when reduced to a gas it gave a spec- 
trum crossed by light lines, characteristic of the 
substance, like the gases composing the sun's 
atmosphere. 

Colbert says "The heat of the solar surface is 
great enough to reduce to vapor many of the ele- 
ments fusible only with great difficulty". ■ The 
vapor of iron, detected in the sun's atmosphere, 
necessities not less than 4500 Fahrenheit. If 
the sun was composed of the same materials as 
our earth they could not remain together in 
one body in so high a temperature. The sun is 
composed of pure metals, having great affinity 
for each other. Many of the elements composing 
our earth would be thrown millions of miles 
away from such intense heat. It is supposed that 
the incandescent atmosphere of the sun extends 
f ve or six thousand miles, and outside of that the 
coronal or sun's rays, which are electricity, appear 
to form two-fifths of the sun's diameter — are 
three hundred and forty miles, its diameter being 
thirteen millions of miles. And the coronal or 
rays he speaks of is the action of vast sheets of 
electricity in constant motion; the light rays of 
his activity extend far bevond the remotest earth 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 105 

in our solar system. It is supposed that the 
attraction of gravitation to the earth extends 
twenty-two thousand miles; the moon is in our 
attractive atmosphere. Some suppose that the 
sun's atmosphere and the earth's atmosphere 
contain nearly the same materials". The earth 
is in the sun's atmosphere, but it has an atmos- 
phere peculiar to the earth. The body of the 
sun consists of an incandescent liquid mass of 
pure metals surrounded by an incandescent gas- 
eous envelope four or five hundred miles in ex- 
lent. This envelope is surrounded four or five 
thousand miles deep by the true chromosphere, 
containing six or seven elements, of which hy- 
drogen is supposed to be in large quantities. 
Those gases we see reflected in the "rainbow". 
The telescope shows the sun to be in constant 
motion, causing the appearance of spots on his 
surface, and the astronomers suppose the motion 
to be caused by tremendous storms in the sun's 
body, accompanied by storms in his atmosphere. 
His body is of dense, liquid metals and the motion 
is caused by intense heat in his center. 

Many of the spots on the sun are more than a 
thousand miles in area; they are whirlpools of 
liquid metals, changing their forms and positions 
at the rate of a hundred or more miles per second. 
It is supposed that those movements are sufficient 
to warm and light a million worlds like ours. 

Colbert says: "The philosophers of olden times 
grouped in their ignorance of nature's laws and 
sighed for more light to illumine their pathways, 



106 IN THE BEGINNING 

but we have attained that for which they sighed 
for in vain". True, modern science has illumined 
our path into a more perfect knowledge of na- 
ture's laws, and Colbert says "The grandest step 
was taken when we had puzzled out the way in 
which we could slice up light into infinitesimal 
parts and study the dissected beams". 

The human mind is so constituted that it can 
grasp immensity, when taken in small parts; and 
knowledge expands the mind. Science is always 
progressive to the finite mind, and as the pro- 
gressive path is an ascending one, it can not turn 
on itself and go opposite to truth. The ancients 
had many erroneous ideas, yet they had more 
true knowledge than we moderns are willing to 
admit. They had puzzled out many grand truths, 
though without our advantages, and when we 
compare their situation with ours we find that 
they are not only our brothers but our peers. 
(We speak of the true race). 

Colbert supposes "the working motion of the 
sun's body to be caused by large masses of clouds, 
composed of incandescent hydrogen, kept in 
motion by the sun's body". To me the 
sun's body is kept in motion by internal 
heat; the seven gases are his atmosphere; the 
true chromosphere of the sun is electricity in con- 
stant motion. It generates the light and heat in 
the physical universe. Electricity in its action 
produces light, heat and galvanism, which com- 
bine again after action; in a hidden, subtle man- 
ner, electricity is always active, in some manner 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 107 

never at rest : it is the great underlying force of the 
physical universe. Without the action of elec- 
tricity, the physical man would be dead. It is 
the soul of the physical universe. The action of 
the heart and the circulation of the blood com- 
bined with the circulation of the atmosphere in 
the lungs, receive and eliminate electricity, which 
is the life of the physical body. The lungs act 
as a safety valve, throwing off superfluous heat 
and nitrogen. They eliminate the life principle 
by motion. 

The great "working forces" of nature, by 
their action, eliminate the substance called "elec- 
tricity". It is the highest form of matter, except 
spirit, and is composed of the highest, finest par- 
ticles of matter and endowed with the greatest 
degree of force, and explosive in its highest action. 

What we call the ' ' working forces of nature ' ' is 
by the action of "laws" which we call "fixed". 
The creative laws are infinite and beyond our 
comprehension at present, and those laws being- 
perfect, to change them would produce other 
laws, which would destroy the harmony of the 
universe. To us they appear "fixed". To God 
they are not fixed, except being "perfect"; there 
is no necessity to change them until the time for 
(dissolution, preparatory for a "new creation"). 
Some say that "God can not change his laws". 
To change them would destroy his works. It is 
the same in the spiritual universe. Law governs, 
and as nothing but the pure and beautiful and 
righteous can enter "heaven" the evil and all the 



108 IN THE BEGINNING 

unrighteous are attracted to "hell" by the same 
' ' righteous law ' ' of affinity. 

Electricity is diffused through all space and 
governs motion. By its agency atoms move and 
worlds revolve; the human system inhales it at 
every breath; it is essential to existence; it is the 
life of the physical universe; by it mind evolves 
thought and intelligence. It is an eternal ele- 
ment; its operations are endless. Magnetism is a 
refinement of electricity. It constitutes the most 
refined external agency to the realm of spirit. 
Magnetism is a positive principle to all below 
the sphere of spiritual agencies. 

Some suppose that "ether" fills the inter- 
planetary spaces. 

Astronomers suppose there is more than five 
millions of suns in one "milky way" or "astral 
system". Each sun, comprising a "solar sys- 
tem", the whole universe is lighted by electricity. 
But there is a "spirit-atmosphere" that I will 
speak of in another chapter. 

The working forces of nature are a very inter- 
esting study. 

Our solar system is supposed to contain three 
thousand six hundred millions of miles in extent 
and "Seneca" says, "Is it to this little spot of 
earth that men's minds are confined?" A few 
vears ago I was awakened from sound sleep an^ 
found myself so near to our sun that I could 
touch it. The rays and atmosphere were shut 
off, leaving the body of the sun visible. It ap- 
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of gold and silver combined. It was boiling up 
in large mountain masses, leaving great chasms, 
which appear to us like spots. The liquid metals 
descended by a whirling or rotary motion, caus- 
ing a terrible noise. It is impossible to explain 
the grandeur and beauty of the sun so near me 
and the surprise . and awe caused by the unex- 
pected appearance. It was not shown to me for 
amusement; it was shown for a purpose, that I 
might know of what the sun is composed (of 
metals) and his atmosphere was revealed to me 
after, as I have explained. Yet, what is the ter- 
rible grandeur of the sun and solar system, com- 
pared with immensity I — which was shown to me 
in a glance. 

(The above is a slight explanation of creation 
by science and scientific laws. God is the master 
scientist. This chapter teaches of creative laws) 
— and the cause of "sun spots". 



CHAPTER (7). 

Spirit Manifestations and Revelations. 

Theurgy, a science, said to have been handed 
down to men by the gods. It was the ability to 
commune with spirits, by using certain words or 
acts to induce the spirits to reveal to them the 
future and things hidden. They were revealed 
through a medium called a prophet or Brahman. 
It was a part of the mysteries of the church and 



110 IN THE BEGINNING 

was very similar to the manifestations of this time. 
Spirits have manifested themselves from the be- 
ginning. The first manifestation at this time was 
in 1848. The first wave of manifested spirits 
called themselves "Christ-spirits". They were 
as "the voice of one figuratively crying in the 
wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord' ". 
Of course we considered it all "humbug" until 
we proved the truth by "mediumship". 

We were in Tennessee when the great mystery 
began to spread. One evening as we were writ- 
ing and inquiring of the spirits, the medium 
wrote my father's name in his own handwriting 
and we wondered why, as he was in New York. 
In a few days we received a letter saying that he 
was dead and had died at that time. 

The first spirit-wave represented the "trum- 
pet", proclaiming the "Day of the Lord", the 
commencement of the "Judgment Day", which 
will continue a hundred years, the great "millen- 
nium". Peoples and nations are brought into the 
"judgment". 

About twenty-five years ago, before we came to 
California, I was awakened one night by hearing 
a loud voice say, "The day of the Lord is at 
hand", and I looked and saw an angel with a 
trumpet in his hand passing swiftly over the 
earth and proclaiming in a loud spirit-voice, 
("The day of the Lord is at hand".) This is the 
great "day" spoken of in the "Bible". The 
"Day of Judgment and Eedemption". 

A short time after that I was awakened one 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 111 

night from sound and peaceful slumber by the 
presence of Christ. I was alone in my room and 
his presence awakened me with a glad, peaceful 
feeling. I looked up and say, with my spirit 
vision, a soft gray cloud that filled the room near 
the ceiling. The cloud was moving round and 
round, presently it parted near the center, over 
the foot of my bed, and a man's head and shoul- 
ders were plainly visible. I looked at him in 
wonder; He looked at me with a smile, express- 
ive of great love, which impressed me with a feel- 
ing of great joy and gladness and I returned the 
smile and said to myself, "Have I seen Christ?" 
As he smiled he reached his arms to me, and I 
knew that if He said or willed it, He could have 
taken me up to Him. He remained about ten 
minutes, then disappeared, cloud and all, and 1 
wondered why Christ appeared to me. I was for 
a witness. I was made a witness of His presence 
on earth. 

A little time previous to this one morning I 
slept so soundly that Mary came to see why I did 
not come to. breakfast. She could not waken me 
and they called a physician and he prescribed ice 
to my head. As soon as he said "ice" I awoke 
and when the bag of ice was placed on my head, 
I grabbed and threw it on the floor; my con- 
sciousness was perfectly restored, but my mouth 
was closed and when they began to wonder at my 
situation I was impressed to tell them to "get 
another physician". They did so. He said 
"my health was perfect", and left. 



112 IN THE BEGINNING 

Some one will say, "Why was that experience 
given to you"? For a witness to myself and 
others, that the things shown to me might be be- 
lieved. Why was Paul stricken blind? For a 
witness to him and others, that he was true. 

For two or three weeks I kept my room, I had 
no desire to go out. I did not eat or drink. 
During that time I was shown through the Bible. 
I was made to understand the conception, birth, 
life, death, burial and resurrection of Christ. The 
ground where the three crosses stood was covered 
with crimson waves; I suppose to represent the 
blood that had been shed to preserve the truth 
taught by Him. 

One night a voice said to me "Read and write 
and be strong and fear not, for I am with thee". 
i was told to teach the Christian religion and to 
live twenty years to do it. 

One morning before daylight, a voice said to 
me, "Daughter, arise and write". I took clean 
paper and pencil and sat down to a table, and a 
strong power took my hand and wrote ("I am 
that I am") and dropped the pencil. As it was 
still too dark to get up, I went to bed again and 
before I went to sleep a voice said, "Arise and 
write". It was not yet light and I got up and 
took the pencil and a power not so strong as the 
first took my hand and wrote, ("Jesus the 
Christ",) in a smaller hand. 

You know it is written in the Bible that t'h* 
Lord said to Israel, "Where I set my name I can 
come at any time". Since writing His name, 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 113 

God has manifested Himself to me many times in 
many ways. At that time, a voice said to me, 
"Not only the Son, but the power of the Father 
has come to earth". It was told in revelation 
that those things would take place before the 
"Great Day of the Lord". Why were not the 
people prepared to receive those manifestations'? 
All people and nations stand before the throne of 
judgment, "the quick and the dead", that is, "the 
just and the unjust". The church destroyed the 
manuscripts containing the knowledge; therefore, 
the ministry are not competent to teach those 
things. 

Some of those manifestations are from "God", 
some are of Christ, proving his presence, and some 
are of all grades of spirits, good and evil, who 
are allowed to come to the judgment. There is 
no "ism" about it. They are simply facts, and 
witnesses of the presence of Christ and the power 
of "God" and of the "day" called the "Judg- 
ment Day". The "day" or period when the 
earth must be purified and redeemed. Christ 
said, ' ' When I come again I will bring my angels 
with me". And also "I will bring my fan in 
my hand, and will thoroughly cleanse my floor". 
(In olden times they used a large, flat basket, in 
form like a "clam shell", in which they placed 
the wheat, and two men took hold, one on each 
side, and tossed the wheat up in the wind; the 
wind blew the chaff away and the wheat fell back 
into the basket. It was called "Acorn-fan". 

The great manifestations that we have all wit- 



114 IN THE BEGINNING 

nessed are not given to amuse the ignorant; many 
have come to a knowledge of immortality and a 
higher life by communing with spirits from the 
higher spheres, and many persons have learned 
that there are "evil spirits ". (It is not well to 
trifle with the spirits.) Many persons accept 
spirit-manifestations as a religion. It is not a 
religion. There is but one religion. But the 
spirits from the higher spheres, called "Christ 
spirits", teach the principles and beautiful morale 
constituting religion or righteousness. But the 
"spirit" is always with us, and if we will receive 
it, we will be instructed. At this time we are 
being instructed, in the arts and sciences and the 
higher mechanics, as well as morale or ethics and 
religion, because man must be redeemed and 
raised to a higher plane. All who can be will be 
redeemed. The angels are assisting, and all who 
can be will be redeemed. The angels are assist- 
ing and the spirit of God will baptize the right- 
eous, who will become "heirs to immortal life". 
As the soul is made for high and sublime des- 
tinies, -it is wrong to devote the present life to 
low pursuits. Never allow your affections to flow 
into narrow and unclean channels. 

For what was man made 1 To eat, drink, sleep 
and die? No, man has a "spiritual organiza- 
tion", of most magnificent, momentous import. 
Previous to the creation of the present forms, the 
immeasurable realms of immensity were chan- 
neled through with seas of unformed materials. 
Infinitude was filled with elements of matter, 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 115 

having eternal tendencies of or to progressive per- 
fection. And residing in the center was the 
Holy Artisan, whose power presided from the 
center to the circnmference. There was then in 
the widespread universe the great co-eternal 
principles with God and matter, and after creat- 
ing all things below Him, "man" was the cul- 
mination of all things and the voice of wisdom 
said, "genesis of man". 

Man shall elaborate the elements of nature 
into an eternal and unchangeable "soul", which 
shall unfold and progress forever, and man shall 
occupy a position that will secure to all things 
equilibrium of power, and man shall be created 
through the medium of suns, planets, minerals, 
vegetables and animals, each of which shall cor- 
respond to parts of his organism, and man shall 
represent the energy, strength, symmetry and 
structural beauty of all animals in form, organs 
and functions, and man shall know himself to be 
the immortal, the king, the lord, the crown of 
creation. And man shall be the exact embodi- 
ment of the great spirit that created him. He 
shall represent in a finite degree the elements 
and attributes of the infinite. He shall desire, 
and be capable of, and shall enjoy the most in- 
effable blessedness. He shall aspire after har- 
mony, and shall obtain it, and shall give his 
strength and existence to maintain it. Man shall 
be an embodiment of nature, a revelation of har- 
mony and an image of Grod. The above two 



116 IN THE BEGINNING 

verses teach "genesis" without entering into 
details. 

The above genesis was given by the first great 
cause, by inspiration to an inspired person and is 
perfectly reliable. The writer says, l * The shadow 
of the plans were deeply impressed upon his 
spirit, and he saw rove forth into the sublime 
depths of infinity; the suns of great magnitude 
and unutterable grandeur, circle after circle of 
suns were unfolded from out the deep bosom of 
seas of unorganized matter, and thus the uni- 
verse was organized and spread through bound- 
less infinitude. (I have explained cosmo-genesis 
in another chapter more fully). 

One night I was awakened from sound sleep 
by hearing whispered conversation between two 
persons. I knew my room was securely fastened 
and none could enter. After a time they ap- 
proached my bed and sprinkled me with water. 
Then they brought A. J. Davis to me, that I could 
see him, and one told me that ' ' I would be as great 
as A. J. Davis!'. Then they left, but I do not 
know why they sprinkled me with water. It ap- 
peared to be a kind of consecration. I was taught 
many things and shown many things. 

I was made a witness to the conception, birth, 
life, death and resurrection of Christ. I was 
shown the hidden esoteric side of the Bible. I 
was shown those things by spirit power, (and as 
it is necessary that the people of the present age 
should be educated into the rational doctrines of 
a future state, in harmony with the requirements 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 117 

of man's nature, that his aspirations after 
knowledge and purity may be quickened. To 
secure this education it is necessary to picture 
the natural modes of life in spirit spheres.) 
There is a "physical body and a spiritual body", 
and that the uses of the two correspond should 
be distinctly understood by all in the flesh, that 
the education of the physical may be properly con- 
ducted and its animal propensities be overcome, 
and its tastes and habits be elevated to a plane 
corresponding to a pure spiritual plane, as is pos- 
sible on earth. Physical nature daguerrotypes 
itself on the spiritual nature, if the spirit-nature 
is not pure and strong enough to control the 
physical. It must be instructed. 

Man is created to enjoy nature and minister to 
it as a part of nature, and must be elevated and 
pure to harmonize with the higher spheres before 
he can attain to them. (Heavenly realms, as 3 
place.) 

I will give you here some of the revealments 
communicated from the spirit-world. The place 
dedicated to the instruction and amusements of 
children is a paradise of beauty. Attached to the 
temples of the four lower circles are the grounds 
devoted to children. Here are constructed 
bowers, which serve as school rooms for children. 
Surrounding these are gardens of flowers and 
groves with flowing fountains and streams of 
pure water, and singing birds of beautiful plum- 
age, and every variety of sight and sound to cul- 
tivate a refined taste. The profusion of flowers 



118 IN THE BEGINNING 

and fragrance of roses make it a delightful place 
for children. Here they are taught by object 
lessons and symbols; children of all ages, from 
infancy to the adult, whose childish nature places 
him among the children. 

The children congregate here with their guar- 
dians and friends to amuse them between the 
times of instruction. The churches do not under- 
stand the things taught in the Bible and they 
turn their backs on the "New Bevelations". 

I heard a loud voice say, * ' The day of the Lord 
is at hand. This is the Lord's day". Can the 
ministry explain that? In preaching they fre- 
quently speak of the "Lord's day", but never 
explain it. This present time is the "Lord's 
day", and the revelations given to the people are 
to elevate and enlighten them to a higher plane 
of knowledge and righteousness of life. 

I will give you a revelation from John Q. 
Adams. He was our president nearly sixty, 
seventy or eighty years ago, and after his death 
he described his situation to a medium. He says, 
"After my spirit had divested itself of its body, 
and I could freely breathe the fragrant atmos- 
phere of the celestial country, I directed my eyes 
to the untold beauties spread out before me. It 
was about twenty minutes before I could discern 
anything. Then I saw a small luminous cloud, 
with a company of celestials approaching me. 
The scene was one of dazzling beauty and bril- 
liancy that nearly overpowered my vision. 
Human language is inadequate to express the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 119 

magnificence of the scene. Over-reaching it was 
a rainbow of many colored lines, aronnd which 
was affixed several stars of the first magnitude, 
and in the center of each group was a beantifnl 
spirit, with a wreath of evergreens on his brow, 
in which was twined the following two lines: 
("God is omnipresent, man is immortal".) 

Thns Lafayette welcomed me to the heavenly 
kingdom. "Now", he said, "my friend and 
brother, in behalf of the glorious millions of Para- 
dise, I accord yon a welcome. With the noble, 
the good and the just, will yon forever associate, 
and with them lal^pr for the world's redemp- 
tion". Here we see the situation of snch men as 
Adams and Lafayette, who generously assisted in 
liberating the United States of America. 

Men's minds were and are so strongly cemented 
to corporal things as to shut them off from the 
inflowings of those radiant beings from the un- 
seen world. Public opinion, sectarianism and 
superstition bind them down to darkness and 
prevent them from standing upon the broad plat- 
form of light, and truth and progress. (But 
some begin to see the light.) Many temples and 
palaces were shown to Adams. But I will only 
describe a few of the beautiful things shown to 
him. 

When he entered the spirit realms he was 
greeted by a reception of angels, and the 
patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Moses 
and Elias, and he was taken to the temple of 
"Brotherly Love". He says, "Two bright 



120 IN THE BEGINNING 

spirits with crowns upon their heads and wands 
in their hands appeared at the door and welcomed 
me into the presence of innumerable immortals, 
who greeted me with delightful music from 
spirit-harps, accompanied by harmonious voices, 
and over the door was this motto, "Faith, hope 
and charity — but the greatest of these is charity". 

He says, ' ' 1 was ushered into a large and splen- 
didly decorated hall, illumined with brilliant 
gems. Thousands of happy beings assembled to 
witness the scene to be enacted. In the center 
was a beautiful altar, and on it I saw a white 
'Lamb' and beside it a 'Lion', and below them was 
written, 'The lion shall lie down with the lamb.' 
The lion typified the strong idolatrous nations". 

Adams says, "I was presented to many spirits 
from many spheres. One beautiful spirit was 
clad in purple and gold with a splendid diadem 
on his brow, with this motto on it, "He who 
would find the road to peace and happiness above, 
must find it through the golden gate of universal 
love". And many beautiful mottoes were writ- 
ten like this, "Angelic love, like stars of night, 
shine with a radiance ever bright". 

He says, "After leaving the 'Hall of Brotherly 
Love', we passed through many beautiful scenes, 
towering trees blooming with luxuriant flowers, 
beautiful streams of water, upon which swans 
were sailing and dipping their snowy necks, and 
on the mountain sides cherub children were 
gathering beautiful lilies; upon their heads were 
beautiful tiaras, adorned with sparkling dia- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 121 

monds, and their little forms were attired in 
translucent gauze. Long I gazed upon this in- 
nocent assemblage, sporting among the splendors 
of this Eden clime". Adams says, "After leav- 
ing the hall I felt myself ascending until I was 
enveloped in a sea of dazzling light and splendor, 
and saw, far above, assembled on a celestial 
barque, the divine form of Jesus surrounded by 
numerous satellites of surpassing beauty and in- 
telligence, who, like the planets revolving round 
the sun, were encircling that heavenly luminary 
of light and wisdom; on a golden cross, typifying 
His martyrdom, He reclined, and over his head 
were several snow white birds, and in their beaks 
were several mottoes. Many youths reclined at 
his feet and there were gathered together the 
patriarchs of old, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and 
Moses and Eliza, and many other bright spirits. 
On the brow of Jesus was a coronet, encircled 
with diamonds of great brilliancy, and in the 
center encircled with gems was the single word, 
"love". 

Adams says, "I became absorbed in wonder 
and adoration, dazzled by the glory of His bril- 
liant mind. I had thought eternities would roll 
on ere I should get a glimpse of His glorious 
form. But the spirit of the universe has per- 
mitted me to see this ' Archangel', and though 
there appears to be an impassible gulf between us, 
yet I know that by the application of the powers 
given me, I shall, in the lapse of time, unfold into 
His high and holy condition. After enjoying this 



122 IN THE BEGINNING 

sublime view, the powers above me withdrew 
their influence and I descended to my former 
plane of being J \ 

We see by the above that Adams was shown 
the kingdom of Christ and the great central 
"sun", the place of the "throne" and the splen- 
did habitations and scenery of the heavenly 
spheres, then he returned to a lower plane, until 
he is developed to a higher sphere. 

Home of the Just Made Perfect. 

Adams says, "After fathoming another ocean of 
space we ceased to ascend, and above us was a 
magnificent circle of stars, within which were 
thirteen other girdles, environing the spirits of 
the just 'made perfect \ The sublimated spirits 
of the signers of the Declaration of our Indepen- 
dence. Above them floated in a circle, within a 
circle of stars, a 'carrier dove', with the emblem 
of peace in her beak, while around the inner circle, 
inscribed in blazing letters, ' t Peace on earth, good 
will to men", and on the sides of the last named 
symbol was a small circle within each of which 
was a star. The one on the right was the star of 
hope; and the one on the left was the star of 
promise; and on each side was a double octagon 
of stars encircling a spirit-form ; and in the center 
of the one on the right was the name of Washing- 
ton, and in the center of the one on the left was 
the name of Lafayette. And circling over the 
immortal band, floated in the ethereal atmos- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 123 

phere a splendid ' rainbow ' of stars, in which 
hovered an L angel of light and love', holding in 
her hand a golden scroll and over each rainbow 
was a brilliant sun, exceeding in grandeur, sub- 
limity and strength of power a million suns like 
the one in our system. And revolving and sur- 
rounding the worlds of 'spirit-life', in a perfect 
blaze of glory. Its rays penetrated each circle 
of spirit beings, diffusing light and warmth 
within each soul, and over it, in the far ethereal 
heavens, was inscribed one sentence; 'The sun of 
righteousness' ". Below that glorious scene and 
the rainbow, on a large palette was inscribed 
fourteen mottoes. I copy a few of them: 

"I am the sun whose light alone 
Can lead my children to my throne ' '. 
"I am the staff, the stay of all, 
My power on every soul shall fall". 
"I am the lamp, whose quick 'ning light, 
Shall keep my children in the right, 
And draw them nearer unto me, 
To spend in heaven eternity". 

When I had read the fourteen beautiful inscrip- 
tions, typical of the boundless love and goodness 
of the celestial "Father", my vision turned to 
the rainbow of stars, and behold the following 
mottoes in a circle of resplendent light above the 
(central sun:) ("Earth yet shall be free from the 
tyranny of ignorance, bigotry and intolerance".) 
("Truth shall deliver man from the bondage of 
error and corruption". "The day of deliverance 
is near at hand".) The Lord's day. 



124 IN THE BEGINNING 

Adams said, "The one most pleasing to my 
sight was the angel in the rainbow of stars with 
the scroll in her hand, who, 

" Slowly to my spirit-sight, 

Unrolled that mystic scroll of light ? '. 

on which was written: 

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant, 
Enter thou into the joy of the Lord". 

On each side of the angel was a cluster of stars, 
revolving in harmonious beauty and splendor 
round her ethereal form, whose glorious light and 
power radiated over and blessed all on whom it 
fell. Around the angel with the scroll were many 
children crowned with beautiful flowers. She 
again unrolled the scroll and I read a brief ad- 
dress, in the celestial girdle, below the compan- 
ions of spirit-life. "Behold, child of God! Go, 
thou bright angel of light and knowledge on thy 
errands of peace and mercy, promulgate the 
word of thy Master, which is (' peace, mercy, 
truth and savation') ". 

Adams says, "When I read this communica- 
tion, I desired to know the celestial author and 
again the scroll was unrolled and to my astonish- 
ment was written 'Mary', the mother of Jesus 
and teacher of little chidren". Floating above 
her at a little distance in a star-environed girdle 
of glory was her son encircled by groups of glori- 
fied saints. Another being appeared, in whose 
expanded form and love-lit countenance I read a 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 125 

true nobility of soul. Gently and lovingly lie 
laid a hand on the head of the mother and son 
and, judge of my joy, when the name ' Joseph' 
was given". 

(This chapter gives a glance into some of the 
glorious realms of heaven.) 



CHAPTER (8). 
Spirit Revelations (Continued). 

I heard a loud voice say, "The day of the 
Lord is at hand". I looked and saw an angel 
with a trumpet in his hand passing rapidly over 
the earth, proclaiming as he went, "The day of 
the Lord is at hand". This "Day of the Lord" 
is a judgment day and all peoples on the earth 
at this time are in the judgment. Nations are 
being judged, every person is in the judgment 
and many spirits are allowed to enter this judg- 
ment, to be condemned or justified. 

Earth is the rudimentary school on the outer 
verge of the great cycle of life. If our lives are 
pure, noble and self-sacrificing, our souls will be 
pure as the morning. 

(In the days of Cronos, a philosopher of the 
middle ages says, \ ' this law was believed regard- 
ing the destiny of man: 'That he who lives in holi- 
ness and justice and moral purity, at death goes 
to the realms of the blessed, and the evil go to 



126 IN THE BEGINNING 

the realms of darkness and death. The peoples 
of all ages had those beliefs') ". 

There are spiritual and celestial heavens above, 
and spheres of "hells' ' below the earth plane. 
The testimony of one spirit says, "After linger- 
ing for a long time in darkness, some of my old 
associates came to me and we engaged in onr old 
pursuits. My home was in the ' hells' and some 
spirits were lower than mine. They had suffered 
intense anguish of mind for long periods of time. 
Their environments were dark wastes, barren 
fields, dismal swamps, gloomy dens and caves of 
horror which accorded with their lives on 
earth. ' ' 

The Bible teaches the same. 

A seer says, "I have seen homes in the higher 
spheres with winding promenades, paved with 
diamonds and crystals and bowers of love, where 
artists, poets and musicians gather for mutual 
enjoyment. And then, I have seen in the lower 
spheres of darkness, clusters, societies and cities 
of moral degradation, engaged in quarreling and 
fitful ravings (they delighted to torment each 
other) and in trying to live their earth-lives over. 
Their day of deliverance has come. 

Peebles says when he wrote of "Causation", 
and Plato of the "Divine Logus" and Tyndal of 
"Forces in Nature" and Spencer on the "Un- 
knowable" and Zimmerman on "Intellectual 
Forces ' ', they meant ' ' God ' '. Mistake. 

Peebles says, "Full of truth, I consciously see 
God everywhere in the blushing peach, the sun- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 127 

shine, the circling systems of universes, etc. His 
works. 

Some writers had not a correct knowedge of 
God. Though I have seen "God" on His 
"Throne", I do not see Him in the material uni- 
verse. Though His spirit pervades the universe, 
and which is governed by His laws, the material 
universe is not "Him". I see "God", a grand, 
glorious, spiritual "being", the "magnet" of the 
universe, the great chemical reservoir of power 
by the spirit and the mundane universe is 
"nature", as shown to me and represented on 
the map (Animunda). Governed by infinite laws. 

A writer says, "A mere scientist is semi-blind 
and sees only one side of the universe". That is 
correct. But he says, "There is a conflict be- 
tween science and theology and the chasm deep- 
ens ' '. 

The writer is mistaken. There is no chasm 
between science and theology. Science is based 
on facts and principles and one having a knowl- 
edge of those truths and principles is a "scien- 
tist". Theology is the science which teaches the 
existence, character and attributes of God and 
His laws and government, the doctrines we are to 
believe and our duties. One having a knowledge 
of the science of theology is called a "theologian". 
Theology is divided into three branches, moral, 
speculative and scholastic. A true knowledge of 
the science called "theology" elevates man above 
the earth plane. As everything is formed and 
created by "science", there can be no chasm be- 



128 IN THE BEGINNING 

tween the science of material things and the 
science of spiritual things; all are governed by 
laws, and law is by science, and as man is formed 
by science, life is by science. There is a vast 
difference between speculative and true science. 
Science and religion are one. The great struggle 
at present is between truth and error and light 
and darkness, and vice and virtue. 

The writings in the Hindu and the Zenda-vesta 
speak of this same struggle. This is a day or 
period of resurrection and judgment. Thousands 
of spirits stand on the earth before the "throne" 
for judgment and the nations are in the judgment. 

A certain writer says, "No solid thinker be- 
lieves in the destruction of ' matter or spirit'. 
He is correct. Matter and spirit are co-existant 
and eternal. The conservatism of spirit forces is 
is of spirit, but the conservatism of matter is of 
the laws of forces given to matter. Matter is 
gifted with the law of life, always active in de- 
composition and re-combination. All matter is 
gifted with a law of life according to its degree 
of development. The law is eternal, but the ele- 
ments change from one degree to another contin- 
ually. The law of life given to man is spiritual 
and eternal being, but the physical man is gov- 
erned by the laws of matter. We can not compre- 
hend infinitude! Many persons believe in pre- 
existence. They mistake. All matter co-existed, 
but not as individuals. Dean Stanley says, "The 
Jewish religion was characterized by the dimness 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 129 

of its conceptions of future life". He does not 
understand symbolism. 

Their religion was the same as all religion, 
i ' righteousness ' ' and the worship of one "God". 
Their emblems and ceremonies were figurative of 
creation, the universe and heaven. Masonic. 
Moses taught them the truth and true religion. 
The tabernacle represented the universe and 
Moses represented God and Aaron represented 
Christ. But the Jews degenerated by marrying 
with inferior nations and adopting their super- 
stitions and rites and we read in the Bible that 
"God divorced them" for their adulteries. They 
lost the true race and true religion, and God put 
them away and took other people. They lost the 
true religion, and when Christ brought the truth 
and light to them they would not receive it. 
Now, the seventh day of a thousand years each, 
is dawning. Will the people receive the light 
or will they be like the stiff-necked Jews, cling 
to creeds, dogmas and ceremonies! 

We read in the old "Bag-a-vad-geta" that God 
says, "Those who worship me, having abandoned 
all ceremony, I rescue from death ' ', and again He 
says, "Those who live righteous lives are my wor- 
shipers". We see by those old manuscripts that 
religion consists of righteousness of life. 

The spiritual manifestation at this time is as 
the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Make 
his paths straight". More than forty years 
ago a voice said to me, "In about one hundred 
years the Father will come in the flesh and in the 



130 IN THE BEGINNING 

spirit and all flesh shall see the glory of God in 
the flesh; and the Son will come in the pnre flesh". 
The seventh (in allegory) day of a thousand years 
each, or the Lord's Day is at hand. The Lord's 
"Sabbath" or "Seventh (as typified by onr Sun- 
day) Day". 

The churches say, "We have Christ". Christ 
was buried by "Anti-Christ". But He has risen 
again on this "third day" of a thousand years 
each. The third day is dawning, this millennium* 
day. Do the people see the light f Christ said, 
"The time will come when ye shall see the angels 
descending and ascending on the "Son of Man". 
This is the time. Professor Winchell says, "The 
time will come when the unseen world will be- 
come like a newly discovered continent ' '. The 
unseen is found and seen by spiritual eyes, and it 
is so large that men can not imagine its height, 
depth, length and breadth. Man can not imagine 
the glories of the heavenly spheres. 

It is said by spirits of higher spheres, "that 
every human child is born married". That in the 
garden of paradise congenial souls meet and unite 
in perfect love. It is a soul marriage. But the 
evil, who by evil, conjugal associations have lost 
divine right of associating with higher spheres 
find their associates in the dens of infamy. Cor- 
rect. With limitations. 

Spirits come to the earth to demonstrate a 
future life and to reveal the glories of the heav- 
enly spheres and the unhappiness of the un- 
righteous, and to teach the necessity of living a 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 131 

righteous life if they wish to reach heaven, and 
to teach them of the terrible "hell" that awaits 
the "evil". Man justifies or condemns himself 
by his life and desires. God says, "Obey my 
voice (commands) and live, or disobey them and 
die". It is said "the hells are filled with proud 
and respectable hypocrites as well as all grades 
of evil spirits. But in the higher spheres the 
garments of the angels come to them as the 
flowers- do to the trees, and the robes of the 
righteous literally flame in matchless splendor. 

Davids says, "The sublimity of ideas in differ- 
ent countries shows that one religion was bor- 
rowed from another". The first religious idea 
was given to the first people (as I have explained) 
and they gave the idea to all peoples ; the historian 
of religious beliefs can only give a statement of 
the opinions of mostly ignorant peoples without 
giving the true basis or principles of religion or the 
reasons why men believe as they do. Religion is 
the very science of life. 

Davids says, "We have no authentic history 
farther back than five hundred years before 
Christ, and back of that stretches long vistas of 
unknown centuries". He mistakes. In our old 
Bible we have a sketch of those centuries and we 
have discovered in the old symbolism of the first 
people their history and religion. 

Davids says, "Buddhism is based on true relig- 
ious principles and is the outcome of all past 
religious beliefs". Yes, Buddhism is the out- 
come of past religious beliefs, but Buddhism 



132 IN THE BEGINNING 

combines truth with superstition and the opinions 
of the ignorant. I have explained the truth in 
another chapter. Buddhism is based on true 
religious principles, but they have added many 
foolish and erroneous opinions as "celibacy", 
"re-incarnation", "transmigration", "re-ab- 
sorption" and many other foolish opinions of the 
dark races. Buddhists believe that human spirits 
enter human bodies. I have explained in genesis 
that is impossible. Every human inherits soul 
and spirit body. 

Davids says, "Many centuries before our earliest 
records, the parent race of the seven Aryan races 
(the Hindu, the Persian, the Greeks, the Bomans, 
the Kents, the Teutons and Sklaves) had passed 
through their earliest religious beliefs and he 
says attempts have been made, with success, to 
prove from their earliest records that the relig- 
ious idea of the seven races must have come from 
the parent stock". That is correct, but Davids 
does not appear to know who were the parent 
stock. I have explained the origin of the Aryan 
race in another place. Abel's race, called "Sons 
of God", were the first Aryans. 

He says, "The seven races had passed through 
their earliest religious opinions and beliefs". He 
should say that the true idea was lost as they had 
lost the key to symbolism and allegory and 
adopted the ideas of inferior races, but the true 
knowledge was kept by a few. The early people 
had a knowledge of heaven and hell (place of the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 133 

dead in sin) and spirit-life, but the sub-races had 
not a true idea as I have explained. 

Davids says, "The Vedas, though our earliest 
records show only an advanced stage in the beliefs 
resulting from their simple faith, so widely dif- 
fused amongst all nations and received from the 
earliest Aryans". The "Vedas" are derived 
from tradition and partly from Moses' teachings; 
he taught the same religion that was given at 
first to the Aryans (Abel). The Vedas preserved 
the beliefs of the old Aryans: (one God, immor- 
tality of the spirit-body, heaven and hell, etc.). 
But the sub-races had lost the truth in supersti- 
tious rites and ceremonies and human sacrifices. 
Moses took the knowledge of letters to India. He 
was sent to teach and enlighten and instruct the 
world in the true religion, etc., as I have explained. 

Moses taught, "That the good enjoyed a Kfe of 
happiness in a spirit-body, which is developed 
after or at death. But the evil enter the nether- 
most depths of darkness' \ Moses dictated a part 
of the "Vedas", which signifies "sacred". 
There is another book written by Moses in the 
"sen-zar" or old Zena language, teaching the 
same religion (religious life). Thus you see that 
the "Hebrews" are a branch of the true Aryan 
race, chosen to teach the people. After Moses* 
death, their writings were mostly lost and re- 
written from memory and Genesis was re-written. 
But we find by comparing it with all other 
genesis that it reflects the truth. 

Davids says, "The question is whether we have 



134 IN THE BEGINNING 

not in those ancient Aryan beliefs the foundation 
stone of a far-reaching edifice of that all powerful 
belief in the immortality of the soul, which has 
played so mighty a part in the influences which 
have shaped the Europe of today". Here the 
man stumbles upon a simple fact, (that the 
Aryans' beliefs were the foundation of the re- 
ligious idea of all peoples,) and the Israelites 
were a direct line from the first Aryans or Abel. 
They received the name (Aryan) from Aaron, as 
I have told you, and the peoples called ' 'Aryan" 
by Davids are mostly "sub-races". The white 
race are the true Aryans, the Hindus are mostly 
sub-races. 

The tribe, led by Moses, were chosen from the 
pure race, first to preserve the race and religion 
and second to go and teach the peoples. But 
Israel did not keep the race or religion, and they 
were divorced, as we read in our Bible. There is 
a written tradition (that the Aryans were the 
chosen people of God, and that they were led as 
a "theocracy" by a chieftain from Middle Asia, 
southwest, where they sojourned a long time 
(Egypt), then northeast to Hor by Moses, then 
east to a- hot climate (India), then northwest to 
Canaan and made a permanent home ' '. This 
statement is true as we have it in our Bible. 
Moses was their spiritual guide and ruler and 
they took the name of Aarons or Aryans from 
their high priest, as we take the name Christians 
from Christ. They were considered "demigods" 
or * ' G-od 's people ' \ We find their religion taught 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 135 

in the oldest traditions, but they lost the key to 
symbolism and allegory. 

When Buddhism arose, he taught that man 
had passed through minerals, vegetables and 
animals. That is true, but not as they teach it. 
The esoteric Buddhists supposed that life was a 
never-ending chain of transmigrations. They 
misunderstood the early teachings. The Hindus 
believed in a "serpent'' or "devil", as I have 
explained. 

Davids says, "There is no mention made of 
1 ' cast ' ' in the ■ ' Vedas ' \ But, he says, ■ ! The utter 
contempt of the Aryans (Israel) for foreign 
tribes, their intolerant spirit, their, antipathy of 
race and religion, are in harmony with cast as 
afterwards established. ' ' ; We find in the Brahmin 
literature passages claiming exclusive privileges 
for the Brahmin priests and nobles, who only 
received the "sacred unction". The early 
"priesthood" was formed of the "Levites", dic- 
tated to by the "Lord" and they only had a 
right to the sacred oil. And as Adam was told 
in the beginning not to (eat or cross with lower 
races), so Israel (who represented Adam) was 
told not to cross with lower races. And the 
command was to them a "law" most sacred, as 
by breaking that law man fell and Davids sup- 
poses that the law of cast was introduced to pre- 
vent the Aryans from incorporating with lower 
races. He is correct. All the sins and vices of 
the world are the result of the amalgamation of 
the (white and dark races). 



136 IN THE BEGINNING 

Between four and five thousand years ago we 
find Moses the commander of a large army, march- 
ing through India as he did from Egypt to the 
Ganges, establishing laws and religion, and 
Israel was told "not to marry with any of the 
people whom they conquered". Israel was the 
dominant race and no other had a right to the 
priesthood. 

After Moses left India, the priesthood degen- 
erated and their rites and ceremonies became 
blended with the superstitions of the dark race, 
who had not the true knowledge, and they re- 
turned to human sacrifices, and writers say that 
when passing by deep jungles at night you could 
hear horrid groans and screams of the victims 
being sacrificed. Cain and his race established 
"human sacrifices", by the sacrifice of Abel's 
tribe. 

It is said that at the time of the flood a part 
of Cain's race ascended the Himalayas, and when 
the water subsided they descended and settled 
on the Ganges, and a part of Noah's family went 
to India and crossed with Cain's. India is a part 
of the "bottomless pit". It is written in one of 
their old manuscripts "that sacrifice is but the 
pegs on which to hang the fillet and robe". The 
altars of the goddess of our ancient faith must 
foe served, not only with soulless things, but with 
the highest. We see here that the low races were 
not satisfied with the animal sacrifices of Moses, 
but returned to human sacrifices. The Brahmins 






A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA .137 

say, "The white race are the only sons of 
Brahma ' \ 

Davids thought that when a person dies the 
soul goes to another body (re-incarnated). Em- 
peedoclese thought that he had been a bird, a 
bush, a boy, a girl and a fish. The belief in the 
existence of spirits has been since the beginning 
and the mysteries about them are being made 
plain. 

The Aryans never did believe in transmigration 
as taught by some philosophers. "Transmi- 
grate" signifies "return of spirits or spirit mani- 
festation". Not correct. 

Davids says, "The facts underlying pre-exis- 
tence, predestination and transmigration are 
real ones". Yes, but not as Buddhists teach it. 

Davids says, "Individual life does not begin at 
birth". I have explained individual life in 
another place. The other races are grafted. 

Christ, of the New Testament, is behind the 
spiritual movement of the present time. But it 
is not meet that it should have the Christian title, 
because the celestials would have men come up 
to that breadth of thought where they can con- 
ceive of (universal ideas of religion, appreciable 
to all time, breathing through all space, and 
bringing to all beings (capable of understanding) 
the knowledge that the same unity is everywhere 
operating, according to fitness) righteousness. 

Spirits go to the next sphere with the same 
desires they have here. (The miser, the sensual- 
ist, and all evil-minded go to the place they have 



138 IN THE BEGINNING 

prepared by their evil lives and acts and desires.) 
I will describe the situation of a few. One spirit 
says, "I found myself in ntter darkness, cold, 
hungry and naked and miserable, enclosed in a 
massive wall. I searched for a door, but found 
none. I shouted and -received only a hollow 
echo. All was still, silent and drear and terrible. 
I then cursed in desperation and despair. After 
a long time a voice said, "What do you want"? 
"I am a newly arrived spirit, cold, hungry and 
naked". The reply was, "You lived a selfish life, 
you felt no thanks to God, nor love for your fellow 
beings, an adamantine wall was between you and 
others. Now an adamantine wall rises between 
you and the heavenly regions ' '. I cried for mercy 
and pardon. 

At length a voice said, "Arise". A strong 
hand was placed on the wall and it gave way and 
I found myself in a meadow and friendly hands 
clothed and fed me and I was told ' ' that I must 
grow pure and progress, in obedience to instruc- 
tions and prayer and love to G-od". I will give 
another of the unhappy. The wretched sinner is 
wallowing in the mire of the blackest skepticism, 
utterly hopeless and thinks he must remain in 
hell through the countless eternities. It is impos- 
sible for celestiallove to penetrate into the utter 
darkness. They can not manifest to those in the 
lowest circles. Neither can the evil spirits 
ascend to the higher circles. 

The "bottomless pit" one great seer says, "I 
studied to find the l lake of fire ' figurative, spoken 
of in Eevelations, and my attention was called to 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 139 

the place called 'the great dragon'. It appears 
like a great wilderness whose shadow reaches far 
up into the rosy blue heavens. It resembles a 
beautiful trapesium with countless chains and 
bars, swinging and trembling in the atmosphere, 
supported by nothing but power. The evil from 
all worlds are attracted to this 'pit' by their 
vices and sinful lives. The beholder is amazed 
at the boundless magnitude of this celestial wil- 
derness, this wonderful country of the 'Diaca 
or Daco '. Your curiosity is excited by the won- 
derful character of its aerial ' crown \ and the 
enchained trapesium (a form nearly square). 
The crown is mottled with dazzling prismastic 
points, so high as to make the surroundings 
black. There are intense central lights, softened 
into flames of perfect blackness, bound in bars 
and chains of incalculable lengths. All the ex- 
teral appearances of this wilderness of the 'Great 
Dragon' impresses the observed with its mys- 
terious and intensely occult character, the 'bot- 
tomless pit' of the spirit land." The seer was 
not allowed to see the interior. 

We read in our Bible that "there was a place 
prepared for the devil and his angels". We see 
that the place is large enough to contain all his 
followers, and we see it is bound in chains and 
darkness. This must be the place of the "com 
demned ' ', no one is allowed to look into that hor- 
rid, dark wilderness but those who are condemned 
by their own acts. 



140 IN THE BEGINNING 

A Day of Judgment in the Second Sphere. 

A great seer says, "From 1851 to 1855, a great 
festival and rejoicing took place in the second 
sphere. Many of the old Greeks, Eomans, Goths, 
Germans, Normans, Saxons , Scots, Picts, Celts, 
French and others held a great festival, and 
thousands received baptism from the higher 
spheres ' \ It was a resurrection from the second 
to a higher sphere and commenced about the 
time that spirit-manifestations commenced in 
America. It was a day of judgment and resur- 
rection in the second sphere, and we see that it 
was of the Aryan race only. There is nothing 
said about the lower races. The second sphere 
is next above the earth. I have described it in 
another place. 

The description of the "pit" or "Drako" was 
given by a "seer", who spent his life in describ- 
ing the wonderful things revealed to him. 

Note — A great many persons refuse to read 
present Eevelations or believe them. This chapter 
gives a description of spiritual things. 



Chapter (9). 
Theosophy as Explained by Madam Blavatsky. 

She says, "Theosophy is not a religion, it is the 
divine wisdom of the gods". (The divine knowl- 
edge or science, given to Abel's tribe, who were 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 141 

called "gods or Sons of God".) The name, 
"Theosophy" is derived from the Alexandrian 
philosophers, who were called "lovers of 
truth". The' name was given by Ammonius 
Sacus in the third century. Sacus established the 
eclectic theosophical system for the purpose of 
learning the truth. "There is no religion higher 
than truth" is the motto of the theosophical so- 
ciety. His object was to reconcile all religious 
sects and nations under one common system of 
ethics, based on eternal verities. There is but 
one religion which is based on eternal principles 
of science and truth, but the first thing is to find 
the truth and prove it. 

M. B. says, "The wisdom religion was one in 
antiquity as proven by the doctrines taught 
during the mysteries, and all the old worships 
indicate a single theosophy or religion". She 
speaks of the various religions. They were 
simply religious opinions and superstitions. The 
great difficulty in theosophy is this: in the begin- 
ning the true religion was given to Abel, who was 
prophet and teacher to the people and as there 
was no writing it was given in symbolism. But 
Cain's race, the "semi-Bumans", as I have ex- 
plained, did not understand the high spiritual 
meaning and introduced idolatry, devil worship, 
human sacrifices and horrid, obscene rites and 
ceremonies, done in secret. They did not under- 
stand the true teaching, and when Cain came into 
power the people were compelled to those prac- 
tices, all except a few of the true race, who kept 



142 IN THE BEGINNING 

the truth. Perhaps you will say, "Cain killed 
Abel." Yes, Abel's tribe. 

The Hindus are " Cain-Hamites ' ' or "Atlan- 
teans" and retained traditions from the earliest 
period with some knowedge but without the true 
interpretation. 

Ammonius taught that Jesus' purpose was to 
restore the "wisdom-religion" to its primitive 
integrity. That was His purpose. And to teach 
righteousness and heavenly things. The wisdom 
or true religion was not understood by inferior 
races. The Aryans only understood it, and their 
"priesthood" kept it as sacred knowledge in their 
temples. 

M. B. says, "the wisdom religion was ever one; 
and being the last word of possible human knowl- 
edge was carefully covered and hid from the peo- 
ple. Not one of the ancients ever imparted it 
to the masses through the priests. I have ex- 
plained why true religion was kept from the mass 
in the beginning. (But as religion was explained 
by Jesus, proving the ' spirit-presence ' there is no 
mystery about it, except the ' baptism of the 
spirit', and when we have learned its presence 
and power the myster^ becomes knowledge.) 
The early people added to this the knowledge of 
'primo-genesis, cosmo-genesis and the genesis of 
man', thus comprising all knowledge (not under- 
stood by the semi-humans) ". 

At the councils of the Christian church, the 
"wisdom" religion was thrown out. An in- 
quirer says, "Can you obtain wisdom by study? 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 143 

If you live according to instructions you will 
obtain the spiritual knowledge. If a person 
lives harmonious with God, he can receive spirit- 
baptism. The priests used to produce the ecstatic 
state by a drink called the "nectar" of the gods. 
Those practices were thrown out of the church. 
The art called "magic", "mesmerism" and 
i ' hypnotism " is by spirit power ' '. 

An inquirer asks, "Why is it that those things 
have been hidden so long? The horrid practices 
and impositions and sacrifices were horrible in 
the sight of God and wholly untaught in the cere- 
monial of true symbolism. They had crept into 
the true church and were forbidden, and the 
Popes in denouncing those practices forbade all 
true knowledge to the people. Those nations who 
held to those practices were called 'the bottom- 
less pit'. If the people understood true religion, 
they would not spend much time in studying 
occultism. The semi-humans understood enough 
of religion to make them superstitious and the 
more intelligent races used their knowledge and 
practices as a weapon to subjugate and hold the 
people in their power".- 

Davis, our great seer, says : ' ' We have ascended 
to the origin of all mythology in which was 
established a vast comprehensive, united system 
of theology, and there is no division between 
science, philosophy, metaphysics and religion. 
The first (science) is the rudiment and basis of 
the second. The second (philosophy) illustrates 
the first typifies the third. The third (meta- 



144 IN THE BEGINNING 

physics) unites with the second and flows into 
the fourth, and the fourth (religion) pervades and 
comprehends them all spontaneously and raises 
to a still higher degree of knowledge and perfec- 
tion". The above statement of Davis compre- 
hends the whole system from the beginning. As 
I told you "religion and science are one" and 
comprehend all (knowledge and truth). 

Theosophists say "The true system antedates 
any modern faith"; if the modern faith as they 
call it, was correctly taught it would embody all, 
but they (teachers) do not understand the phil- 
osophy of science and truth. Christ taught the 
philosophy of science by his works. 

An inquirer says, "How did this system hap- 
pen to be put forward just now?" Because the 
time was found to be ripe. We read in Kevela- 
tions that the "pit" should be opened and Satan 
let loose for a season and then go into perdition, 
and the truth revealed. This is the time spoken 
of". 

Theosophists say, "All men have physically 
and spiritually the same origin", which is the 
fundamental teaching of theosophy. The old 
writings contradict it and our genesis contradicts 
it. 

In one sense they did as I have explained, but 
they lost it by the fail, by crossing with animals; 
some took brute natures. 

M. B. says, "All the clubs forming take for 
their fundamental principles ' The Brotherhood of 
Man', which distinguish human nature from brute 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 145 

nature". I have explained the "origin of man" 
in another place. All men had the same origin, 
but by crossing with animal types they lost their 
true origin and brotherhood. Universal brother- 
hood is right in one sense, but theosophy says, 
"The white race is the superior race and that 
Cain was the son of the white mother ' ' Eve ' ' and 
"Satan" the old beast, was his father, and that 
Cain married the "mindless" and they begat 
children from "beasts". Therefore, though Cain 
was a son of "Eve" and half brother to Abel, he 
begat children from "pre-human" and semi- 
human types. Therefore Cain's race can not 
claim brotherhood with Abel's race, the Aryans. 
Neither can the sub-races understand the true 
spiritual meaning of religion. But it is our duty, 
as the superior race, to instruct and elevate the 
lower races to their highest plane. If mankind 
was one "brotherhood" they would understand 
one religion. But we see by the constant struggle 
between the white and dark races, that the curse, 
"I will put enmity between her seed and thy 
seed" still rests upon them. But they must be 
compelled to a higher plane. As to the brother- 
hood of man compared to animals I have ex- 
plained that in another chapter and also why 
Israel made a distinction between the races. 
There always will be a distinction between the 
races until they can harmonize as one race. Still 
humanity is one and must be governed by human 
laws, before they can claim brotherhood. In 
brotherhood will be degrees of excellency. And 



146 IN THE BEGINNING 

those laws must reach even to the brute in kind- 
ness. When mankind (the true man) recognizes 
and practices true religion ' ' brotherhood ' ! will be 
estalished by those principles of righteousness 
that form the foundation of religion. 

M. B. says, "Theosophy in its absolute meaning 
is divine wisdom ". Correct. 

Plato thought man was constituted of two 
parts, one ethereal and eternal, and the other 
mortal and formed of man. He says, "A mortal 
body and an immortal principle and a kind of 
separate mortal soul ' \ In theosophy, man con- 
sists of the physical body, the animal soul, and 
the spiritual soul". Plato and Pythagoras say, 
' l that part of the soul which is rational is eternal, 
though it is not God, but the part of the soul with- 
out reason dies".. "Devashan" is the land of the 
gods or souls after death. Some theosophists 
say, "The spirit is a divine essence, without 
form, and it only overshadows the mortal, and 
only its rays enter him". I have explained the 
carnating and reincarnating of the soul or spirit. 
Theosophists say "We reject future rewards and 
punishments, but we believe in retribution." 

Theosophy says, "We reject a new created soul 
for every new-born babe ' '. Souls are not created, 
they are inherent and are transmitted. By much 
reading I find the same truths in theosophy and 
philosophy, etc., that I had written before I read 
them; every individual has individual conscious- 
ness, soul, or else he would not be responsible. 

M. B. says, "To create, the creator has to be- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 147 

come active", and that is impossible for the 
"Absolute". All things are possible for the 
"Absolute". God is infinite in form, power, 
knowledge and wisdom, creates by laws unknown 
to men, but which I have explained in a general 
way. God's laws are always active. Motion is 
one of the fundamental principles of creation. 
There is no inertia in nature. "Absolute" signi- 
fies: "Boundless in' all power >\ 

M. B. says, "We believe in universal, divine 
principle, the root of all forms, from which all 
proceeds, within which all shall be absorbed at 
the end of the great cycle of being". (One eter- 
nity). An inquirer says: "According to your 
(her) theory, the infinite must be in every par- 
ticle of my cigar ash ' '. M. B. says, ' ' Were we to 
exclude the omnipresent from every particle of 
matter, could we regard it as infinite!" Matter 
is infinite possibility governed by laws. God is 
infinite, power, knowledge and spirit. Buddhists 
do not believe in an individual, immortal soul. 
I have explained the soul in another chapter. 

Theosophists say "We do not believe in an 
individual, immortal soul or spirit. All return 
to and are lost in the one essence or soul". They 
say, "We believe in no creation, but in the peri- 
odic and consecutive appearance of the universe, 
from the subjective on to the objective plane of 
being at regular intervals, covering long periods 
of time called "cycles" or "eternities". During 
which "night" all matter is resolved into the 
"gaseous state". "No one created the uni- 



148 IN THE BEGINNING 

verse". (I have explained creation in another 
place). 

Theosophy claims to be the truth underlying all 
religions in their exoteric or popular forms. An 
interpretation of the ancient system known as the 
"secret doctrine' ' or "wisdom religion". This 
esoteric knowledge has been guarded with great 
care. It was based on righteousness and truth. 
The thing they call "karma" is simply the law of 
eternal righteousness. Man can learn only an 
atom of the science that acts in the correlation 
of forces, however much philosophers may theor- 
ize and philosophize on the esoteric principles of 
nature. 

The term "Bible" signifies "Word". It was 
composed partly from scraps of history, kept by 
the early peoples in glyphs and symbols, under- 
stood perfectly by the initiated. They were 
called "Kedim" or Wise Men, having the key to 
knowledge of creation and immortality. But 
the early teachings have been perverted by later 
writers who have misconstrued symbolism. The 
allegory in our genesis is founded on truth, and 
so are nearly all of the figurative descriptions 
given by all peoples. They are all founded on 
the same facts. In time the so-called philosophers 
lost sight of the true religion by seeking after the 
esoteric knowledge beyond their comprehension. 

The term "theosophy" is derived from 
"theurgy", knowledge supposed to have been 
revealed to men by the gods. (Abel and his 
sons). He was the first prophet and communed 



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with God of whom he learned of creation, etc. 
The knowledge of those things placed man on a 
high spiritual plane. But by the fall man lost the 
knowledge and the ability to commune with God, 
having lost the spirit brain and divine soul. He 
was fallen to the animal plane, and could not 
understand spiritual things. But a few of the 
pure race kept the knowledge and some of the 
sub-race learned to commune with "evil spirits" 
and was called "a tree of knowledge". As the 
knowledge given to men comprised " righteous- 
ness", it was called the "wisdom religion". 
"Religion is from the Latin "to rebind". By 
righteousness man is rebound to heavenly things. 
A righteous man is a wise man, and an unright- 
eous man is a fool. 

In the beginning man had a perfect knowledge 
of the science of primo-genesis, cosmo-genesis and 
the genesis of man and his ultimate perfection. 
But the sub-races lost the true knowledge and 
substituted superstition, etc. Moses taught 
Persia, India, etc., and they taught the world at 
that time. 

I have explained that there were two root- 
races, Abel's and Cain's, half brothers, and the 
struggle at the present time is how to exterminate 
the animal in and elevate the man to the true 
standard. The true man must assist his half 
brother to rise from the animal to the spiritual 
plane, but before he can do that he must subdue 
and subject him. 

Alexander Fullerton, a theosophist, says, "Our 



150 IN THE BEGINNING 

philosophy, our science, our religion, have worth 
only, as they make us more useful members of 
the brotherhood of man". As religion is a prin- 
ciple there can be but one religion, and every- 
body should be governed by those principles of 
goodness, justice, love, etc. Science is by the 
action of nature's laws as we call them. 

Fullerton says, "After passing through many 
re-incarnations, etc., the soul can pass onward to 
higher realms and expand". 

Another one says, "After many re- incarnations 
and sleeps in 'Navara' thousands of years, the 
soul loses itself in the one soul". 

Transmigration of souls. The Egyptians 
taught transmigration of souls as a punishment. 
If the soul was not worthy of heaven, it was left 
on earth to become the soul of animals. That is, 
the evil soul takes on the appearance of the animal 
it represented while in the body. It was taught 
by Pythagoras also. But the early idea was de- 
rived from the fact that the majority of the semi- 
humans were mortal, and were extinct, and at 
death their souls went to the earth. Buddhists 
teach the same superstitions. Spirits do not pro- 
gress by "reincarnation". They progress from 
one plane to another higher as they become per- 
fected by instructions from higher spirits, as I 
have explained. Theosophists speak of the "third 
eye ' \ It is the spirit ' i vision ' \ 

The author of the "seven principles in man" 
says, "When the human body of man had been 
slowly developed by evolution, the manas or sons 



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of "mind" came to the earth and took up their 
abode in the mindless bodies and those are the 
reincarnating principles ' '. Incorrect. 

Another writer says, "When the animal body 
of man had been perfected by evolution, the Lord 
added a spiritual organization''. Correct. 

Kecent revelations say: "When man had been 
slowly evolved from the animal- to the human 
form, God added the spiritual, intellectual brain, 
containing the soul germ of immortality, which is 
transmitted from parents to children". Correct. 
The law of immortality, implanted in the first 
human soul, was transmitted or reincarnated to 
or in all succeeding generations of men who pos- 
sess the spheno brain. 

One writer of theosophy says, "In the beginning 
there were only a few worthy of reincarnation". 
That signifies that in the beginning there were 
only a few out of the millions of man-animals 
possessed of the spirit brain, therefore could not 
re-incarnate or transmit it. ''Reincarnation" as 
they teach it is "Buddhism" borrowed from the 
old Egyptian superstitions of the semi-humans. 
The human embryo is an immortal entity with 
conditions. If the animal brain predominates it 
will rule the man, but if the spirit brain predomi- 
nates it will rule the man. The human body is 
used as a mould to form the spirit organism, and 
the spirit body once formed can not reincarnate 
in another body. The physical man, while form- 
ing, receives nourishment from material sub- 
stances and the spirit body receives nourishment 



152 IN THE BEGINNING 

from the finest parts of matter spiritualized by 
contact with the spirit atmosphere which sur- 
rounds us. The "cell" theory of the great Ger- 
man philosopher and scientist is correct. Ex- 
plained in another place. 

Beasant speaks of " attraction ' ' as a "mani- 
festation of eternal life".- Elemental attraction 
is an eternal law; it is one of the principles in 
mindless matter. Attraction, combination, repul- 
sion and decomposition are a manifestation of the 
laws of the eternal life principle in matter. 

Man is an "entity", his own soul harmonizes 
with and functions in his spirit brain and spirit 
organism, which in turn functions or acts upon 
the physical brain and nervous system; thus, his 
actions are governed by his own will, and he is 
free to do good or evil. 

The all pervading mind is God, an eternal 
"Being" that no one can rival. The just man 
lives in both atmospheres, and at death the spirit- 
man ascends and lives only in the spirit atmos- 
phere and harmonizes with the spirit. The 
' i psychic ' ' principle belongs to the ' ' spirit organ- 
ism", harmonizing with the physical organism, 
which it energizes. 

The molecular vibrations are caused by subtle 
electricity in combination, harmonizing the spir- 
itual and physical brains. In high mental action, 
the spiritual and intellectual harmonize, holding 
the lower organism in check. When the lower 
senses are active the higher organism is merely a 
spectator. 



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Joseph Buchanan says, "Theosophy is the 
science of true religion, knowledge gained by old 
philosophers, by theurgic practices ' \ " Theurgy ' ' 
was the same in principle and practice as the 
spirit-manifestations of the present time. He 
says, "My electrical experiments confirm the 
statements of Gall" in the psychic science, in 
connection with anatomy which lead to the temple 
of Divine wisdom. He says, "The soul has its 
home in the brain and a special apparatus belongs 
to every function in life" as distinct cerebral 
fibres and by the vast complexity in its structure 
and incalculable variety of psychic elements and 
organization, man has been baffled in understand- 
ing jthe most mysterious anatomical structure in 
its nature and capacity" (because the soul is al- 
most infinite in capacity). He says , "It is in 
cerebral science and its correlative psychic science 
that the possibility of theosophy exists. By 
which we can obtain "Divine wisdom" and 
"knowledge". Men with a large, well developed 
spirit brain have a perception of the psychic world 
of life and power : A world of divine immortality, 
which is not perceptible to men with large physi- 
cal and small spirit brains. 

About the time that the present spirit manifes- 
tations were given to the earth, it was ascertained 
by some scientists that the spirit-sensibility and 
soul were located in the middle or "spheno-tem- 
poral" lobe of the brain, where the ascending 
fibres of the ' ' corporastriata ' ' have their distribu- 
tion. (Between the intellectual and animal brains, 



154 IN THE BEGINNING 

combining the intellectual with the spiritual ) . 
Those statements are true, confirming the state- 
ments that I have made relating to the soul. 

Buchanan says, "In this age, religious truth 
and scientific truth are one (because religion is a 
principle and all principles are of science). He 
says, "The department designated as 'religious ' is 
not generally supposed to bear any relation to 
other departments of knowledge". Religion is a 
principle on which all true knowledge is based, 
as all true knowledge is divine. Buchanan says, 
"Let us think of the origin of self-consciousness" 
in man as the very center of the germ, from which 
his bodily fabric has been evolved, and that it 
has grown and expanded with his growth, includ- 
ing his natural and spiritual nature, adjusting 
itself tc a]] conditions and relations of structure 
and formation within and without. As an "evo- 
lution" on the physical side, and an involution 
of essence and type from the spiritual or sub- 
jective plane, consciousness expanding as the 
body expands, but always maintaining the same 
relations to structure and function and seeking 
equilibrium, in the eccentric and concentric life 
of man". (True. I have explained in another 
place ) . . . . 

He says, ' i Science is philosophy,- and philosophy 
is science, and true religion is science ' '. He 
agrees with me in those opinions. Science and 
religion comprehend all principles, and principles 
are of law. He says, ' ' Discord and disharmony 
belong to man". Mistake. They are the result 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 155 

of the fall. When man understands the truth he 
will live the truth (harmony) with eternal life. 

He saySj "There is no force without matter, and 
no matter without force". True, in one sense. 
Force,. principles and proportion underline all the 
phenomena in nature. Electricity and magnetism 
are the underlying forces of the material world. 
He says, "The sub-stratum of matter is 'dynas- 
pheric' ". Of course it is, as I have explained. 
Continuity of matter and force is a fixed law, as 
is evolution and progression. For that reason 
children should be taught righteous acts. We 
suppose that the quantity and force of the ma- 
terial universe is always the same and unceasing 
motion governed by law unfolds the cycle of crea- 
tion. Transition and progression are stamped 
on all material things. Polarity is manifest 
everywhere. He says, "The idea of the eternity 
or indestructibility of matter can be traced back 
to the very remote times", though the correlation 
and conservation of force in its present form is 
of recent date! Correct in a sense, though 
glimpses may be found in the Hindoo philoso- 
phers, etc. Electricity in various combinations is 
always in motion. It is soul of the material uni- 
verse. There is no inertia. Matter and force are 
indestructible. Spirit is the soul of spiritual 
things. and life eternal. 

William. Q. Judge, Fellow of the Theosophical 
Society says: "Theosophy is an ocean of knowl- 
edge". In one sense it is. The collective writ- 
ings under that head contain an ocean of knowl- 



156 IN THE BEGINNING 

edge and an ocean of superstition and false teach- 
ing. As a religion, true theosopky teaches the 
truth; as a science, it teaches the science of crea- 
tion; as a philosophy, it teaches some truth and 
some superstition. Judge says: "Theosoptry is a 
scientific religion, and science is religion". True. 
It was taught as such from the beginning. He 
says, "The religion taught by the churches falls 
short of the truth and knowledge taught in the 
beginning". The knowledge contained in theos- 
ophy is not in our "Bible" and the churches do 
not teach it, but they teach the morale. The 
knowledge of primo-genesis, cosmo-genesis, and 
the method of creation are not contained in our 
Bible, and the teachers do not understand sym- 
bology. Theology, theosophy and Huxley agree 
in the assertion that "there are beings in the 
universe whose intelligence is far superior to 
ours". Correct. But they are not on our earth. 
At the present time the earth and man is in tran- 
sition state to higher conditions. 

But he (Judge) says, "Man was dropped from 
other planets to this one". (I have explained 
how man was formed on all worlds). (World 
formation). When the nearest world approaches 
the sun it is disintegrated and thrown far out and 
in time forms another planet, so each earth 
evolves in turn. Men on all worlds were created 
in the way that I have explained in another chap- 
ter. I have explained the impossibility of rein- 
carnation as they teach it. How foolish Judge's 
idea of earth formation, etc., is. He says, "Sub- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 157 

races have to be evolved before the true root can 
be formed' \ Correct, as I have explained. His 
seven-globe theory is not correct. The pre- 
humans, in human form, were called "mindless 
men". Judge says, "At Moscow in 1893, Pro- 
fessor Birchow said, 'The missing link is as far 
off as ever' ". (The "mindless men" spoken of 
are the "missing link" so much sought after by 
scientists). 

Judge says, "The life principle in man and 
animals depends upon the microbes. The life of 
the microbe is by the action of electricity. No, 
the life of the physical world depends upon the 
action of electricity and magnetism. But the 
physical in man is developed above the animal; 
therefore the physical acted upon by the spiritual 
evolves a "spirit body" which, in connection 
with soul, governs the triune-man. The animal 
soul having become harmonious with the intel- 
lectual, human soul, makes up the moral, intellec- 
tual and spiritual, immortal, divine man. The 
physical body is subject to death, (but from the 
body is born a spiritual man, comprising all the 
affections and attributes of mind and matter in 
the universe ) , if well developed. 

Judge says, "The microbes extend far out be- 
yond the body". Mistake. It is the "aura" 
that extends beyond the body. It is so sensitive 
in some persons they can feel the presence of 
things and persons not visible. Judge says, 
"The principle of life is the ocean in which the 
earth floats, that it permeates the earth and all 



158 IN THE BEGINNING 

things in it". Strictly speaking there is no 
death. The law of life pervades everything. 
Correct. 

Universal change and evolution to higher con- 
ditions is a law of. the universe. Judge confounds 
the life of the physical with that of the spiritual 
body. The physical body is the "vehicle" for 
the physical atmosphere and the spirit-body is 
the vehicle for the spirit atmosphere, which is all 
around us. It is said by scientists and seers 
"that every substance emits an 'aura' and every- 
thing on earth is photographed in the spirit at- 
mosphere". Man only had a spirit-body. He 
says, "It is desire that causes us to be born". 
Desire is a necessary attribute, inherent in nature. 
Even mindless matter seeks and attracts affinities. 
The necessity is by the law of life and develop- 
ment ; only man abuses the law of attractive affin- 
ity. 

Judge says, "That the 'Kama-rupa' or 'astral 
body', 'spirit body' is but the mass of desires, 
left by the real person, who has fled to heaven". 

Another writer will say, "The soul has gone to 
rest in 'Navana' to prepare for reincarnation". 
Judge says, ' ' At this time, man is a fully develop- 
ed quar ternary, with the higher principles partly 
developed". But as mind is being evolved more 
and more, we can perceive the transition from the 
animal, which is possessed of the 'germ' of real 
mind to the man of mind complete". He does not 
distinguish between the animal in human form 
and the man in a fallen state. 



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He says, "When we become consciously united 
with the spiritual soul we see God, as it were". 
Correct. The churches call that consciousness 
"regeneration" or "reincarnation" of the spirit. 

Judge says, "Periods of moral and mental dark- 
ness succeed each other, and must be, according 
to the order of things". He does not understand 
the cause of the darkness he speaks of. In the 
first ages of man they are a "theocracy". God 
ruled and instructed the people by prophets, who 
were called ''Sons of God", who taught the 
"wisdom of religion".. That was a "day of 
light". And when Cain's race made war on 
Abel's race and nearly annihilated it, the world 
was left in moral, mental and spiritual darkness, 
which lasted till after the flood. When man is 
governed by the laws and teaching of God the 
world is light, and when Satan (men without 
spirit-consciousness) puts out the light and 
rules, the earth is dark. 

The Jews destroyed Christ, which left the world 
in darkness even until now. One cause of Christ 
being on the earth at this time is to resurrect the 
truth. Judge says, "the truth can be found in 
theosophy". Yes, if we know how to sift the 
true from the false. When Moses was in India he 
taught the "wisdom religion", etc. The mys- 
teries spoken of as belonging to the older theoso- 
phies, was a knowledge of spiritual things (primo- 
genesis, etc.) which was mystified by emblems, 
etc. Some of the records he speaks of were car- 
ried there by Moses and some were kept by the 



160 IN THE BEGINNING 

inferior races, who did not recognize a superior 
race. Israel was the great "brotherhood", "ma- 
hatmas" having the true knowledge of a "god", 
creation, heaven and eternity. From them the 
Hindus acquired their knowledge. Their genesis 
confirms ours when we understand it. 

Judge says, "How man came to be the com- 
plex being he is, science or religion can not 
answer". He says, "The immortal thinker 
(man) has those vast powers and possibilities, 
because of his intimate connection with every 
secret part of nature from which he was built 
up; but he stands at the top of a vast evolution". 
Then Judge believes in "creation". He is the 
ultimate of all created things to a higher spiritual 
plane — according to his ability. Judge supposes, 
"the reason why man was endowed from the ma- 
terial and spiritual universe, was to emancipate 
and raise the entire mass up to the standard and 
stature of conscious ' ' God-head ' \ (From all that 
I can learn, man was endowed from the material 
and spiritual universes for the purpose of form- 
ing and elevating him to a perfect self-conscious 
immortal being, a divine man (Sons of God). To 
inhabit a universe of spiritual worlds, clothed 
with immortal verdure and flowers and fountains 
and conditions of happiness, that man on the earth 
can not imagine.) Judge says, "The moment we 
admit, spiritual and physical evolution we have 
to admit "reincarnation". Not in their sense. 
That is of superstition and "Buddhism". Each 
animal type was formed and endowed with con- 



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seiousness according to his brain formation, and 
by the law of retardation each type is an ultimate 
and incapable of progress until we come to man. 
The higher type in human form was slowly de- 
veloped and perfected physically, to whom was 
added the higher intellect and spirit brain. Thus 
it required millions of years to create the earth 
and perfect man instead of "six of our solar 
days ' '. 

Judge says, "At the present day 'manas' or 
spirit is not fully active in the race, but in the 
next cycle, 'manas' will be fully developed in the 
entire race". Another writer says, "Many per- 
sons on the earth have no spirit-brain". I think 
so. 

The next cycle in the "millennium" and man 
will be redeemed to a higher plane, and Judge 
says, "At that time man will be compelled to 
choose a complete union with 'Atma ? or 'Anni- 
hilation' ". It will be the "day" or time of 
judgment, so much spoken of in the churches. 
The day will continue till the year two thousand 
or longer. Then the millennium will commence. 

Judge says, "The 'Anthropoid apes' are derived 
from the animal and man". They are merely 
"collateral" types, and die like the frog or cat. 

If man is "worthy", at death he ascends. If 
"unworthy", at death he descends. Explained 
before. 

The "spirit-body", or real man is composed of 
spirit substances, evolved by the material body. 
The spirit-body possesses a perfect organism and 



162 IN THE BEGINNING 

brain, containing all the knowledge and desires 
necessary for "spirit-life". But if a man lives 
and indulges in evil, his spirit-mind and body 
dwindle, and at death he has no place on a high 
plane, and writers say that some are lost, that 
they die ' '. Judge says, ' ' Man is the maker of his 
own destiny". Correct. He says, "Pre-ex;s- 
tence, reincarnation and other occnlt laws are not 
clearly explained in the "secret doctrine' ". For 
that reason persons reading the "occnlt" without 
knowledge, misunderstand it. "Pre-existence is 
in contra-distinction to the idea of creating the 
world out of nothing" as taught in the churches. 
"Pre-existence" supposes that all things existed, 
or the possibility of all things existed in the un- 
formed primal-cosmos until creation or formation, 
as I have explained it, and I have explained re- 
incarnation also". 

Some old writers supposed that one earth had 
to be peopled from an older one by transmigration 
or microbes or atoms; hence the term "anatomy". 
And they supposed that souls had to transmigrate 
from one earth to another for the purpose of en- 
souling new bodies. Those writers had no real 
knowledge of creation, primo-genesis or the evolu- 
tion of souls. 

Theosophists have adopted the name "karma" 
to express one of nature's laws. Its literal mean- 
ing is "action". That is, a "law of justice". 
The action of the physical universe is caused by 
electricity in union and always in motion, pro- 
ducing the varieties in minerals, vegetables and 



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animal life under creative laws. The ancient 
Hindus said, "That everything but 'Brarna' or 
'God' was under the rule of 'Karma' (law) right, 
which harmonizes equilibrium. It is a law of 
justice. Theosophists suppose the earth to be an 
intelligent entity. Not so, the material universe 
is endowed with a law of life but without intelli- 
gence, and is governed by infinite laws". Judge 
says, "Men struggled for thousands of years to 
find the laws that produced spirit (spirit was in 
the beginning) and governed the occult universe, 
but did not find it". * The first or "Sons of God" 
had the knowledge, but it was lost to the "semi- 
humans". Moses restored it. The church ig- 
nored it. The Jews lost the true idea. 

Judge says, ' ' The idea of creation conflicts with 
the Jewish Bible". It does not conflict with the 
Bible, but the teachers have not the knowledge to 
explain the Bible. Judge says, "Beinearnation" 
is a Jewish doctrine, thus, "that whosoever over- 
cometh shall be a 'pillar' in the temple of God, 
and go no more out". Being "clairaudient" 
they see the doings of men. In the councils of 
early Christian church many manuscripts were 
condemned and thrown out as not "orthodox", 
in condemning superstition and "esoteric" prac- 
tices.. They condemned much truth and taught 
figurative doctrines. 

Judge says, "It is the 'ism' of theosophy to 
restore the doctrine of 'reincarnation' to whatever 
religion has left it". (I will explain in another 
place). Judge says, "There is a wide gulf be- 



164 IN THE BEGINNING 

tween science and theosophy on the 'origin of 
man' ". No, they teach the same. "Yet", he 
says, "under the superstition about Adam and 
Eve is hidden the truth. ' ' He says, ' ' The origin of 
man is not to be discovered". (Science and seers 
have taught, and I have explained the "origin 
of man".) He says, "In the second round they 
amalgamated and at the seventh round they will 
be once more 'distinct types of men' ". (Ex- 
plained). The races on other planets have nothing 
to do with this planet, but by amalgamation on 
earth will be formed a new "type", a "dark 
race" on earth. But above that will stand the 
pure white race. The Bible supports my state- 
ment of creation and the origin of man in allegory. 
He says, "that man did not spring from a single 
pair or from the animal kingdom either". I 
differ with him on his own ground. Theosophy 
teaches that "man-animal" was derived from the 
animal kingdom by "evolution" and "manas" or 
"mind and spirit" was an especial gift to man. 
The variety he speaks of was caused partly by 
nature and by "amalgamation" as theosophy 
teaches. The moon separated from the mass of 
earth-matter while in a gaseous state. I have ex- 
plained i i re-birth ' '. It is the birth of the ' l spirit- 
body", from the flesh at death. Paul says, 
"There is a material and a spirit-body". 

Judge sa t ys, "In about five hundred after Christ, 
the Council of Constantinople condemned and 
hurled anathema at (by the fall man lost the 
spirit-brain and immortal soul and Christ came to 



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baptize with or reincarnate the lost spirit or sonl) 
reincarnation as a superstition". They did not 
understand "reincarnation" as I will explain in 
another place. If the church understood "Gen- 
esis", it would change its opinion about redemp- 
tion, etc. Judge speaks about the "permanency 
of man" as a race. That depends upon the "re- 
demption" of the "spirit-brain" that was lost 
by the fall. Science, revelations and the oldest 
manuscripts prove that man was derived from 
the "animal-man", and he was formed under 
water as I have explained. The animal type from 
which man was evolved was formed under water 
in another ' ' organism ' '. 

Secret Doctrine Continued. 

S. D. says, "Man fell by generating man-mon- 
sters ", as I have explained. 

Eecent seers agree with old Aryan writers 
"that man was evolved from the animal-kingdom 
and is the ultimate on this earth". S. D. says, 
"Satan (Cain) only has the shame of generation". 
But afterwards his tribe crossed with Abel's.. 
causing many of them to fall. S. D. says, "The 
Aryan stock are all of one race". The white 
race Abel's. But many at this time called 
"Aryans" are crossed with the dark race. S. D. 
says, "The Purana" teaches the most scientific 
dawn of creation, anticipating nearly all the 
branches of modern science. The first order of 
priesthood, now called "Masons", had a knowl- 
edge of creation by scientific laws. It was known 



166 IN THE BEGINNING 

to ancient philosopher s in its general features, and 
a moral code, the most perfect on earth". It is 
said in the sacred writings, "that even Satan will 
be redeemed", in this great day of redemption. 
(By a new root-race). But not his whole race. 

One writer says, "from the primitive spark of 
protoplasm and the nucleated cell originated all 
animal life", and developed through innumerable 
stages from fish, reptiles and mammals up to man, 
to whom was given the wisdom-brain containing 
the soul germ. Bastian says, "Subsequently we 
are notified of the gradual modifications of one 
of the ramifications of the quadramanus order into 
those beings from the primeval man-animal claims 
to have been evolved, and the great scientist, Dr. 
Herman Klaatsch, Ph. D., of the University of 
Heidelberg, teaches the same doctrine regarding 
the ps}^chic cell and the genesis of man". Correct. 

(Sacred.) "All that is on earth", saith the 
Lord, "is the shadow of that more luminous, till 
it reaches me, who am the ' Light of Light' ". 

S. D. "The third race (Cain's) was the only 
shadow of the second (Abel's), and the war in 
the 'earth-heaven' Cain's race was with Abel 
and Cain was cursed and cast down to the 
earth". "Jupiter dethroned his father". (In 
allegory Cain was called "the Son of God", and 
when he destroyed Abel and ruled a thousand 
years, instead of God, they supposed he had de- 
throned God. S. D. says, "There is no mention 
made of a first man in any of the theosophies". 

I can point to numerous in those allegories, but 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 167 

generally they commence with ' ' The Sons of God". 
Mythology says, "The first race was gold (yellow 
Cains) , the second silver (Abel's white silver 
ocean) and the third bronze". S. D. says, "Cain 
was called the sacrificer". Sacrificed Abel's race. 
S. D. says, "The Aryans were called the 'elect 
race' ". S. D. says, "A few primitive men, in 
whom the spark of divine wisdom burned bright 
and became stronger by commune were the elect 
custodians of the mysteries revealed to mankind 
by the divine teachers, but it got dim in those 
who turned it to evil purposes ' '. S. D. says, ' ' The 
Atlanto-Lemurians are charged with taking wives 
of the mindless" and after that they took wives 
of the "elect-race" as told in our genesis, 

S. D. says, "In the symbolism of every nation 
the "deluge" stands for "chaotic mother". In 
the old writings the earth is called "mother". 
The Lemurians were nearly allied to the ape and 
monkey, but with forms nearer to the human. 
' ' One of Darwin 's ' links ' ". The ' ' quabala ' says, 
"The souls of Adam went into three sons, tribes, 
liable, Quin and Seth. 

S. D. says, "The throne of the Emperor of China 
was called 'the serpent's seat' ". The Chinese 
were mostly descended from Cain's crossed race. 
Cain was called the "Angel of Death" after he 
destroyed Abel's race. S. D. says, "The original 
Hebrew says, 'Cain the evil one was the son of 
Eve by Tamael, the devil', who occupied the place 
of Adam". A Semite tradition says, "Cain was 
generated by 'Satan', the subtle beast." The 



168 IN THE BEGINNING 

same tradition says, "The fallen angels are men 
in the esoteric", and the Talmud says, "that 
Satan and the angel of death were the same", and 
says, ' ' Cain was the first to shed human blood by 
the sacrifice of Abel 's race. The races previous to 
Adam were pre-human animals. The two races, 
so much spoken of in tradition were Cain's and 
Abel's. 

S. D. says, "The divine, ancient sacrificers 
(Adiina) were the first speaking race". They 
were taught to cook their meat and give thanks. 
S. D. says, "The religious symbolism of the early 
Aryans was high and holy" and their religious 
principles were high and holy. The Masons were 
a branch of them, but they do not understand the 
symbolism. S. D. says, "The spirit of God lives 
in, the sea of space". The spirit occupies with- 
out filling space. Correct. 

S. D. says, "The 'Veda' of the earliest Aryans, 
before it was written, went into every nation and 
sowed the first seeds of all existing religions, 
which are the offshoots of the never-dying 'Tree 
of wisdom'. The Aryans, the first speaking peo- 
ple taught the 'wisdom religion' and Moses and 
Israel were of that race and carried the religion 
to India. Since then it has been written. The 
Aryans, the first of the human race, taught the 
true religion, called 'wisdom-religion' the worship 
of one god, by righteousness of life, to the world, 
but it has mostly been lost in superstitions". 

The S. D. says, "That at the end of the Kalpa, 
our present age, the everlasting 'king' will appear 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 169 

and re-establish righteousness on earth, and the 
minds of men who live at that time shall be 
awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. All 
peoples and seers are prophesying the same thing, 
'The day of the Lord'. Our 'Kala' ends with 
2000. (The prophecy of the Lord's day.) The 
above Veda tells of the present time, and must 
have been told by Moses while in India, but as a 
part of our B\ble is from Moses and Israel's writ- 
ing we did not borrow from India. But the facts, 
kept by the priesthood, were lost by Israel and 
rejected by the church. We have to go to India 
to recall the knowledge of the primitive people, 
etc". 

"The men thus enlightened in the next 'kala' 
shall give birth to a race which shall follow the 
laws of the Krita age of purity". Satan or Cain 
was called the "Prince of the Powers of Dark- 
ness", "The flying dragon", "spirit-medium". 
The Kabala says, "The light was concealed from 
the semi-humans". (They lost the spirit-brain). 
Ezra re-wrote the Bible and gave an allegory of 
genesis. Perhaps in their wanderings and cap- 
tivities Israel lost the key to symbolism and the 
knowledge as taught by Moses. If the true gen- 
esis and religion had been taught in the Christian 
church, the people would all have been enlighten- 
ed, according to their ability, but all knowledge 
was kept from the people. But what could Ezra 
do even if he had the knowledge? The truth con- 
demned the dark race and Israel was in their 
power. They were surrounded by idolaters and 



170 IN THE BEGINNING 



1 1 



superstitious nations, called "dragons 
pents", etc. "Angels chained in darkness" were 
those accused in Genesis and cast into the pit. 
There is a spiritual and a physical pit. "War in 
heaven" signifies the war between Cain and Abel, 
the first war on earth. War was caused by the 
dark, evil cross race of Cain taking wives of the 
white race. "Day Star", "Lucifer", "The Son 
of the Morning". After Cain destroyed Abel, 
Cain became the dominant race "The Star of the 
Morning". They supposed the white race was 
extinct. The "Mystery of Adam" is explained in 
the stanzas of I). Zan. "Eliphas Levi " is correct, 
figurative. "Horns and hoofs" refer to the "fall 
to the animal plane". The "Semites" were of 
Abel and Abraham was of them. (The chosen 
race). 

S. D. says, "The existence of Satan is a fact. 
He was prophesied of in the beginning. Abel, 
the first prophet, prophesied of the race and the 
war of extinction. A few were left and the suf- 
fering of the world caused by the cross of the two 
races. They formed a fourth race". The 
"Kabald" says, "Satan was not a black god, 
but the negation of the white deity". That is, 
Satan (Cain) was only a negative or shadow of 
the 'white race', as the majority of them were 
mortal and would die like a shadow. 

S. D. says, "The Latin scholastics have suc- 
ceeded in transforming the universal soul and 
pleromy, omnipresent spirit. The vehicle of 
light and receptacle of all forms, a power spread 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 171 

throughout the universe with its direct and in- 
direct influence and effects, into Satan and his 
works". (Mistake. The spiritual atmosphere, 
explained in another place.) The knowledge of 
spirit-life, obtained by Cain's race, was used for 
evil purposes, as sorcerers. S. D. says, "It is the 
light of the front brain, in harmony with the back 
brain that elevates spirit and intellect. Correct. 
The crucified man spoken of symbolized the death 
of Abel, who was God's representative and gave 
the light of truth to the people. The ' seven hills' 
spoken of were the seven hills on which Rome was 
built, and the 'woman' spoken of symbolized the 
church. The throne in China was called "The 
Serpent's Seat". The Chinese were mostly de- 
scendants of Cain's crossed race. The old 
'dragon' or 'serpent'. The constellations was a 
book of the history of the peoples and circum- 
stances. The 'dragon' constellation symbolized 
the 'dragon' and all his race". 

The S. D. supposes the "serpent" spoken of in 
the "Vendidad". alludes to the north pole. The 
constellation called "dragon" or "Draco" sym- 
bolizes the old "dragon". It winds part way 
around the north pole and represents the "pit", 
the seat of and ruled over by the "old dragon" 
or "devil", who had power to bring evil and 
death on the earth. Those writers supposed the 
sin of the dragon caused the glacial period and 
flood. I have explained the pit in another place. 

The Aryans, spoken of as living on the "River 
Oxus", the first garden planted by "Xoah" and 



172 IN THE BEGINNING 

the garden "eastward in Eden" was "Arkad" on 
the Euphrates, where Moses and Israel lived. 
But previous to the flood Abel's race migrated to 
the "Hesperides", the "Western Paradise" in 
Africa, where Cain, the dark Adam, lived, who by 
crossing with animal men had fallen into a deep 
sleep (spiritually) and Eve's and Abel's tribes 
united, was the "Eve" of the Bible, who was 
brought to "Adam" (Cain), and by crossing with 
them their (Cain's) eyes were opened "spirit- 
ually ". " Aryan magic ' ' signifies prophesies and 
spiritual knowledge. The "Zoroaster" of the 
"Vendidad" was the Moses of our Bible. And 
the S. D. says, "the esoterism of Zoroaster 
(Moses) is identical with "the secret doctrine". 
Of course it is, as Moses carried the "secret 
knowledge" to India. The fiery circle, with a 
hawk's head across its diameter, is a symbol of 
the cosmos of the earth being destroyed by the 
sin of the serpent. Posten says, "The old dragon 
is identical with the flood". Of course he is, as 
he committed the sin that caused the curse and 
the flood, according to tradition. 

After the death of Abel's race, Cain's race, 
called "demigods", ruled a thousand years. The 
crossed races produced the different shades of 
colors of men. They possessed all the evil nature 
of the old stock of Cain's. A large part of the 
men on earth are descended from the cross races. 
Even now some of them will not harmonize with 
the higher race. S. D. says, "No one ever has 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 173 

understood Genesis". I have made it as plain as 
daylight to the intelligent. 

S. D. The Hierophants of Egypt, Babylon and 
India styled themselves "Sons of the Dragon". 
They were descended from Cain's race. 

The Mexican "demigod", who was admitted to 
the "snakes', hole", because he was a "son of the 
snakes", was descended from the same snake race. 
He was an initiate to their secret practices. The 
man of the fourth race, being giants in strength, 
directed by the intelligent race, built many of the 
huge temples spoken of in writings. The Dragon, 
who sought to kill Christ in infancy, was Baby- 
lon's king. The "war in heaven", spoken of in 
Aryan literature, was between Cain's and Abel's 
races. The "war" spoken of in the "Apoclyp- 
tic" was between Cyrus, the then Prince of 
Persia, and the ' ' Dragon ' ' was Babylon 's king. S. 
D. says, "He, man. was created perfect, but after- 
wards he joined with 'Tiamat' (Cain) and fell". 
Hallam says, "If man was made in the image of 
God, he was also made in the image of a monkey". 
Mistake. As God is the prototype of all forms, 
the monkey is only an imperfect image; man only 
was made a perfect image of God; all others are 
fragments. The "white man" only was created 
a "perfect likeness" of God. Man is the "ulti- 
mate ". A divine man. 

A person asks in the "Progressive Thinker". 
"What is soul?" then replies in this way, "Soul 
then is the product of that eternal uncreated, 
self -existent principle and property in matter that 



174 IN THE BEGINNING 

makes it possible for the seed to germinate and 
grow np out of its helpless condition into a state 
of life, and it being an inherent property in mat- 
ter, we may justly apply it to all material forms 
that possess the power of locomotion". My idea 
of soul is that it is the mundane, animal life, car- 
nal mind and consciousness. The pre-natal con- 
ditions are temporary, while the spirit-life is en- 
during". This person comes quite near to the 
truth. 

The "soul", the author of Christian Science 
says, "If man did not exist before his materializa- 
tion, he could not exist after disintegration". 
The universe of matter and spirit contains the 
possibility of all things and God, having created 
man by evolution from the material universe, gave 
to Adam the "spirit-brain and germ-soul", which 
was transmitted to his posterity. A young 
Catholic priest said in his first sermon, "Souls 
grow, as do the lilies". The body contains all the 
primates and the soul all the ultimates of matter. 
The soul contains all the essences, laws and 
forces of mind, acting through innumerable 
agents; the "conjugal" principles, acting through 
.this central law of development, evolved the im- 
mortal soul and spirit body from the germ soul 
first planted and transmitted by the parents. The 
soul contains all purified essences, all refined and 
unimperishable forces, and the crystallization of 
all spirit-elements. The* whole office of nature is 
to perfect the body and soul of man; (which was 
lost by crossing with animal-man) the spirit 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 175 

body is the fruit of it vitalized exterior. The 
physical organism gives permanent form to the 
spirit-body, which encases the "image-immortal". 
The perfected and conjugated corporeal brain is 
to make a corresponding spirit-brain. Whatever 
you possess by ordination of nature in the physi- 
cal system is brought into the spiritual organiza- 
tion. The spirit contains all the essential prin- 
ciples. It is the ' ' acme ' ' of all formations. When 
nature has culminated in ultimating the being on 
the summit of the "tree of life", she perfects and 
perpetuates the "type" by propagation. She 
moves progressively forward by the law of gen- 
eration through all the animal kingdom. The 
spine, by a system of spermatic centers, pro- 
gresses until it unfolds the negative hemisphere 
of the human soul — the cerebellum. All the in- 
telligence and instincts in the ante-human world 
are folded up in this part of the physical brain. 
The cerebellum represents the whole volentative 
intellect, reasoning faculties, etc., that qan be 
embodied in man's structure. The cerebrum is 
the positive. These two hemispheres form a per- 
fect pyramid. The middle or apex contains the 
wisdom principle, virtues and immortal prin- 
ciples. If man had only the negative brain he 
would be mortal; by the addition of the central 
brain, he became immortal. The higher animals 
have the cerebellum and positive brain, partially 
developed in limitation. But that is no indica- 
tion of immortality. A perfect "marriage" of 
two brains with the "golden image" forming a 



176 IN THE BEGINNING 

perfect unit, that nothing can sunder. This glor- 
ious arch with its keystone of impersonal prin- 
ciples when perfect will stand forever. The 
elements composing it are indestructible, the 
spirit department is the keystone spheno. The 
immortal arch, connecting the conjugated 
brains "love, wisdom and intellect" enthroned 
(elevates a man above the passions and psycho- 
logic, animal creation). This part contains all 
that is beautiful and true, comprehending the 
idea of eternal, personal happiness. When the 
brain is well developed and harmonious, their 
marriage is "eternal life". 

John the Baptist says, "He who follows me, 
will baptize you with the Holy Grhost (spirit) and 
with fire". In the Orient fire was an emblem of 
the male deity and immortal life. 

Theosophists say, "We do not believe in a hell 
or heaven as a locality, but we believe in a post 
mortem condition". Not correct. Tibet is sup- 
posed to be the headquarters of occult learning. 
In the archaic ages and the home of the aborigines 
of China, records say it was "the land of wisdom 
and brothers of the sun". Buddha says, "There 
is* a creator or absolute being, only the eternal 
energy of unconscious law". Who made the 
laws? (The energy philosophers speak so much 
about is the eternal, omnipresent "Spirit of God" 
who is the underlying power of the universe). 

The Brahmins were of the priesthood estab- 
lished by Moses. 

A Hindu writer says, "Christian writers can 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 177 

not admit that any of the Vedas are older than 
the Pentateuch". I think they are partly from 
Moses' teaching. The Greeks and Eomans were 
not Atlanteans. Hindu writers confess that the 
Ayrans come from the Oxus. The languages are 
derived from the Aryans; they were the first men 
on earth given a spirit-brain and comprehensive 
language. As Cain's tribe lived with Abers tribe 
many years, previous to making war on them, 
"they all had one language". 

After the flood a family of Cain's cross, who 
had escaped to the Himalayas, descended and col- 
onized India, They had no written language, 
but they kept the traditions of their tribe; and 
when Moses carried letters there their priests 
wrote many of the crude traditions and supersti- 
tions that we find mixed with the truth. When 
Moses, the "great general", marched into India 
with Israel in form of a sword, he did not destroy 
the people, he subdued them and put away idola- 
try and human sacrifices and taught them the 
truth. Israel wrote part of the "Vedas" sacred 
books. Moses taught them laws and religion and 
established a priesthood and the people identi- 
fied him with God and called him "Brahma" and 
the priests were called "Priests of Brahma". 
Some writers say, "that the choicest of the Aryan 
race, with their chief magistrate, migrated to 
India in a body", and when they elevated their 
standard, the light from it lighted the country 
round for miles. Our Bible says, ' ' The light went 
with Moses to guide his way through the wilder- 



178 IN THE BEGINNING 

ness". Tliey built temples and cities, etc., and 
they left India and rose and left en masse, leaving 
a part of them. From that time India degen- 
erated. After Moses left, many of them returned 
to their old practices called "philosophy". But 
the priests in the temples retained the religion 
and knowledge of creation. 

Sinnett says, "The language of the gods (white 
race) can be traced in the speech of every Aryan 
nation". Of course, it was the first language. 
Sinnett says, ' i The adepts deny to western 
science any knowledge of the development of the 
Indu-Aryan race on the banks of the Oxus ' \ But 
we read in our Bible that in journeying from the 
East, they came to a place in the Valley of Shinar 
on the Euphrates, etc. 

Orientalists say, ' ' that at some remote period 
before the Aryans were divided from the parent 
stock there stood a single barbaric people, repre- 
sentatives of the Nascent Aryan race, who spoke 
a now extinct language". Israel was of the 
Nascent stock, and when Moses went to India he 
left his two boys in Persia; they are the two boys 
spoken of in fable as having been reared by the 
wolf; they represented the true race; they founded 
Eome and her laws, and introduced the Latin 
language, long since extinct. The disciples of 
Christ were called "Christians" and the disciples 
of Aaron were called "Aryans". Sinnett says, 
' ' Our writers have perfect records of an unbroken 
lineage of the Aryans through two thousand 
years B. C. They ought to have longer "data" 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 179 

as it is longer since Moses carried letters to India, 
but as Sinnett says, ' ' they did not keep dates cor- 
rectly". Sinnett says, "The Brahmins have for- 
gotten the correct interpretation of their sacred 
texts". The present Brahmins are a degenerate 
sub-race. A writer says, "The Aryans headed 
the fifth race of whom we are". The Aryans are 
the "root of all the races of men, except the 
Nagas, the fifth race, are of the first. There is 
now a brown race forming of the cross breeds and 
the Aryans, but the true Aryans will keep our 
place at the top. The doctrines taught by Moses 
were of creation, righteousness and immortality. 
The same that was taught in the beginning. A 
writer says, "There is no mention made in the 
old Vedas of paper and pen". The Vedas were 
not written till after Moses went to India. He 
gave them the knowledge of letters, laws and re- 
ligion. "Iacolliate", the author of "Le Bible, L. 
India", says, "we are astonished at the ruins, lit- 
erature, the polished language and evidences of 
the high state of civilization of the past India". 
They are evidences of the presence of the Aryans 
and others as told by history. Moses introduced 
"caste". The Sanscript was the "root" of all 
language. The harsh language spoken of was 
of the semi-humans, whose vocal organs were im- 
perfect. A writer says, "It is known to the 
Aryans that writing was known to the Brahmins 
from remote antiquity. The theo sophists of all 
philosophies is essentially the same. 



180 IN THE BEGINNING 

An old manuscript says, "After the universe 
was created the Trinity, "Father, Mother, Son" 
(the celestial trinity) occupied heaven, whose 
apex the spirit-soul (the spirit extends through 
space, co-eternal with matter) extended to the ut- 
most space. "Space, matter and motion are co- 
eternal. The "builders", the "sons of manvan- 
taric dawn", were the first circle of suns elimin- 
ated from the central sun. 

"In the beginning", the ray of the ever dark- 
ness became a ray of effulgent light and flowed 
into the mundane egg. (Matter.) A symbol of 
the "dual, creative power", law and nature, is 
the "Padma", the water lily of India. Fire 
represents the active, male principle. (Spirit of 
deity and ether is the female principle, hence water 
is called "mother" and fire "father" in the 
esoteric.) In the beginning the abstract deity. 
The "spirit", being sexless and not a being, but 
"beness" or "life", having "male and female" 
principles, engendered the "son" form. The 
"celestial trinity" "Father, Mother, Son", father- 
mother made manifest in the son god. Rome 
was established as a nursery for the church 
(church signifies "called") and the true religion. 
Their laws and religion were based on republican 
principles so the citizens could live as one people, 
protected by the broad wings of the "eagles' " 
emblem of peace, power and righteousness. The 
primitive symbol of the serpent on regeneration 
and immortality, signifies that the serpent race 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 181 

(Cain's) must be regenerated by reincarnation of 
the spirit. In the Egyptian as in the Hindn the- 
ogony there was a concealed deity, omnipresent 
(spirit) and a creative god. Form and electricity. 
The son of darkness electrifies into life "preg- 
nantic matter". The source of materia] life and 
consciousness. . Hermis says of electricity, "It is 
the strong force, for it conquers every subtle 
thing and penetrates into every solid. Thus was 
the world formed. A writer says, "How can 
'Brahmin' (spirit) become Brahma and Form, 
united, one infinite God?" As I sat one day, 
studying Genesis, "There was no god before 
"me" and shall be none after "me". I shut my 
eyes and thought, "What does that signify!" and 
a spirit voice or "word" from above said: "In 
the beginning the spirit was, and in perfecting 
' ' form ' ' was produced ' '. The celestial ' ' trinity ' ', 
father, mother, son, "god" made manifest. We 
see that the author of the "rig-veda", recognized 
"Christ as the son and representative of the high 
God, was sent to rule the earth "spiritually". 

The co-relations of electricity are creative, pre- 
servative and destructive on the physical plane. 
It is the pulsatory movement of creative force. 
The "rig-veda" says, "the animating principles 
(that is above our comprehension) in or on the 
physical plane is in the mundane egg of our uni- 
verse, which is "Androgenus". "The Spirit is 
Father, Mother principle, manifested in the Son". 



182 IN THE BEGINNING 

One grand, glorious being. ("God". I have seen 
him on his throne.) 

D. Zan says, "Svabhavat is the mystic essence 
in its unity on the higher plane; the vortex 
' Archetypal- world' from whence proceeded the 
creative, formative and material worlds; and the 
'centilia' or spark, etc., 'electricity' ". 

Dr. C. W. Littlefield claims to have found by 
experiments the spark or origin of life on the 
earth. The life of the material world is elec- 
tricity in combination and the life of the spirit 
world is spirit. The decad-form contains the 
universe; the "triad" forms the sacred "four" 
within the circle, and the square within the circle, 
being the most potent figure. Thus Mother, 
Spirit and Father, Mother, Son, form the tri- 
angle or triad, and thus forming the sacred num- 
ber "four" and the square. The square within 
the circle and the triad represent the celestial 
trinity. 

D. Zan says, "The 'Logos' appointed to govern 
the earth in its round is Christ". Ignorant 
teachers say, "Christ created the world". Elec- 
tricity, the highest force, next to magetism is the 
animal soul of nature and electrifies into life the 
mundane universe by formative laws. 

The rig-veda says, "Vishnu, the prevailer, is the 
God of the earth". The Son of the High God. 
'Christ' or 'Vishnu' represented God on the earth. 
S. D. says, "The Coptic is from Eastern Asia and 
contains the germ of the Semitic, thus bearing 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 183 

witness to the primitive unity of the races. 'Rig- 
veda' says, 'Elohim' (Jehovah) is 'spirit, soul 
and body.' His third step in the generation of 
men was Christ". 

A Cabalist says, "The Hebrew language was 
clear, short, terse, exact; far superior to the tod- 
dling, word-talk of the Hindu, which has the 
same borrowed plumage that the Greeks had, and 
shows that the 'Hebrew' came from more remote 
antiquity and nearer to the original source. The 
Hindu is from the 'Atlantean', and the Hebrew is 
of the 'Aryan-Sanscript', from whom the Hebrews 
are descended. 

M. B. says, ' ' In Aryan thought we find a grand 
philosophy". Of course, as they were the first 
recipients of the true science, philosophy and re- 
ligion. The knowledge was kept by the priest- 
hood in symbolism, but after Moses left India 
the priests lost the key to symbolism, and the early 
Christian church destroyed the manuscripts con- 
taining the truth, as by the truth they were free. 
But the truth is being restored by the study of 
old manuscripts and Revelations. A single tri- 
angle represents the "celestial trinity" and a 
double triangle represents the "celestial" and 
"terrestrial trinity". S. D. says, "The earliest 
Avorship was of fire". Because "fire" repre- 
sented "Divine Soul", which contained the all of 
life in power and principle. 

The elemental spirit of the worlds is electricity 
and its accompaniments, male and female force or 



184 IN THE BEGINNING 

positive and negative electricity. 

In the beginning the perfect man was placed 
at the apex. He was the culmination of creation, 
and by the cross with the imperfect, mindless race, 
he fell to the ' ' semi-human ' ', then to corrupt beast- 
liness, that caused the destruction by the flood as 
told in our Bible, and those who were not de- 
stroyed by the flood have progressed slowly. 

By a cross with the white race, the mass will 
be raised to their utmost capacity, forming a new 
'•root-race", and those who can not progress will 
be dropped out. By a cross with the mindless, 
the perfect man fell; and by a cross with the true 
man, the mindless and inferior races will be 
raised to their ultimate. But above them all will 
stand the white race". The man created in the 
"image of God" will stand at the top or apex, 
forming a complete circle. 

I will finish this chapter by a glance into the 
"Glorious Eealm" called "heaven" quoted. 
This center constitutes a realm of "Divine 
Beings". This "Divine Sphere" is passive in 
the blissful radiance of the soft, white light from 
the "throne". The great central spirit-sun was 
an evidence to me that there was a heaven, and 
that she was an occupant of the glorious heaven. 

One day as I sat reading an article by a 
"Unitarian", saying "that there was no personal 
God, and no heaven as a place", I shut my eyes 
and thought, "Is it possible, after all, that I have 
read and heard and seen that there is no per- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 185 

sonal God, and away in the distance an aper- 
ture opened into a brilliant white space, and a 
being as white as snow, about the size of a woman, 
stepped out and stood about five minutes facing 
me, then stepped back and the space closed. 



CHAPTER (10). 
The Book of Joshua. 

At the death of Moses, Joshua was chosen to 
govern Israel, and the people promised to obey 
him. And about forty thousand passed over the 
Jordan, near the city of Adam, equipped for war — 
Judges. The Bible gives a description of the 
manners, customs and wars, during the period 
that Israel was governed by Judges, Juda was 
their first Judge. The Book of Buth is preserved 
in the Bible because it contains a part of the gen- 
ealogy of David or Saul, the first king of Israel. 
David was the second king in Israel; he lived 
in Bethlehem. He was a great musician and 
poet and the Lord told David that He would es- 
tablish Solomon's kingdom forever, but if he com- 
mitted iniquity He would punish him with the 
stripes of men. Solomon was one of the elect. 

Solomon, son of David and Bethsheba (Uriah's 
wife) was anointed king of Israel. He was beauti- 
ful in person, gifted in intellect, kind, a poet, bot- 
anist, legislator, judge, king and high priest after 



186 IN THE BEGINNING 

the order of Melcliizedec. He built the ' ' Temple ' ' 
according to prophecy. He established a new 
form of worship. He exhorted the people, 
prayed and gave thanks. Bnt he did not keep the 
covenant made with him by the Lord. He loved 
many strange women and bnilt altars and groves 
and sacrificed to idols to please them and the 
kingdom was taken from his family, except the 
tribe of Juda of whom is Christ, and the proph- 
ecies of Jacob says, "The scepter shall not de- 
part from Juda". Solomon was crowned by the 
perseverance of his mother Bethsheba. . His sig- 
net ring was composed of a "double cross". I 
have explained in another place. His songs were 
mostly descriptive of love or folly for women. 
The Psalms of David were not all written by him 
and the songs of "degrees", Masonic, appear to 
be to some "order or society" (I think the order 
from which the present Masons are a branch). 
Each stone in Aaron's breast plate represented a 
tribe of Israel and was figurative. David 
prophesied of Christ and his church Ecclesiastes 
was written by Solomon. The "Chronicles" is a 
record of the same people; much of the Bible is 
compiled without order. Samuel is called the 
"first prophet", but we see that prophecy com- 
menced with Abel. 

I left Abraham and Sarah in the garden, near 
the Euphrates, as representatives of Adam and 
Eve, and Hagar and her son represent the old 
serpent and Cain. Cain was turned out lest he 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 187 

eat of the tree of life, and Hagar and Ishmael 
were tnrned ont lest they contaminate and take 
the place of the true race. God told Abraham, 
"He wonld make of him a great nation", and 
sealed him with the circumcision, by which his 
posterity was set apart as a chosen nation to 
keep the true religion, law and the true race. 

Sohor Levit says, "God said to Abraham, 'I 
will seal you with the holy seal' ". It was the 
seal of the covenant made with him. He was 
told to build an altar, as Abel was in the begin- 
ning. He was prince, chief, priest and teacher 
to his people. "Isaac" signifies "joy". Abra- 
ham sent to the city of "Nahor" for Isaac's wife, 
and she was very fair and she bear Esau and 
Jacob. Here Esau and Jacob represent Cain 
and Abel; Esau married with the forbidden race, 
but Jacob went to Laban , his uncle, and took 
Leah and Eachael, and sojourned many years in 
Persia. The Lord told him to "put away his 
idols and go to Bethel", and make an altar u^to 
God, who appeared to him, when he fled from 
his brother Esau. Here we see that they had 
been worshipping idols, and we see that God 
communed with the people, and directed them, 
by the spirit. 

Abraham had two wives. Israel was of Sarah; 
the Ishmaelites were of Hagar and the Midianites 
were of the second wife. The Mohammedans 
were of Ishmael and enemies to Israel as told in 
Genesis. 



188 IN THE BEGINNING 

After many years Jacob went to Egypt with 
his family on account of the famine in his land, 
and when he was abont to die he prophesied of 
his children. He said "Simeon and Levi are 
brothers; instruments of cruelty, thumb-screws 
and rack are in their hands and habitations. t i 0, 
my soul, come not thou into their secret, or unto 
their assembly mine honor". I will divide them 
in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. We are 
told "that the priesthood were of Levi, and we 
can infer that Simeon was also in the priest- 
hood". 

The Levites were of Leah's handmaid, and 
perhaps there was a taint in the priesthood. 
Israel was scattered according to the prophesy. 
"Instruments of cruelty are in their habita- 
tions". That shadows the cruelty of the Jews 
to Christ and his church, and the cruelty of the 
Catholics to the same church. Again he says, 
"or unto their assembly mine honour", as Jacob 
represented Christ and His church. The church 
he represented must not be tarnished in the as- 
semblies of the Levites. Again Jacob says, "In 
their anger they digged down a wall, and in their 
fierce anger they murdered a man". Figuratively 
speaking, the Jews digged down the wall, by 
which the Lord surrounded and kept them from 
other nations. And in their "fierce anger" they 
murdered Christ. Those things were shown to 
Jacob in a vision. Again he says, "The sceptre 
shall not depart from Juda". Juda was the 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 189 

strength of Israel, and the sceptre did not depart 
from him as of him came the Christ, whose 
sceptre is everlasting. Christ is "head" of the 
church and those recognize him as God's represen- 
tative and keep the commands are of his church. 
Again he says, "Nor a law giver from between his 
feet till Shilo come and to him shall be the gath- 
ering of the people". This was a double 
prophecy. Jacob's children; the Lord's elect; 
the Light of God would be scattered and en- 
slaved in Egypt until Shilo come and he shall 
gather and lead them to the promised land. 
Moses was of Jacob of Juda and when he was 
watching his "father-in-law's flocks" back of the 
desert near the mountains of God (called so be- 
cause God sojourned spiritually there nearly two 
years in commune with Moses, whom he instructed 
in the laws and in building the ark.) The Lord 
or his angel appeared to Moses and empowered 
him to go to" Egypt and gather the people 
"Israel" and lead them out of bondage. The 
Lord said to him, "I have seen the affliction of 
my people and am come down to deliver them out 
of bondage", out of the hand of the Egyptians, 
(the Egyptians were Cain-Ham-ites), and Moses 
led them out by the Eed Sea and in the third 
month he came to the mountains of God, and when 
the people murmured for water, the Lord said, 
"I will stand upon this rock, and you shall smite 
it with the rod in your hand," and water flowed 
thence. And it was called the "Eiver of Shilo", 



190 IN THE BEGINNING 

because Sliilo or Moses smote the rock. That 
proves that Moses was the "Sliilo" spoken of in 
the prophecy of Jacob. 

The land of Canaan which extends from the 
Mediterranean on the west to the Indies on the 
east and Hor on the north to the river of Egypt 
and Edom on the south. The place where Moses 
encamped on the river "Shilo" is the second gar- 
den after the flood. As the Lord said, "This is 
of my planting", the river of Shilo ran through 
it to water it and Jacob or Israel who supplanted 
"Adam" was placed in the garden to water and 
tend it. That is, to keep the instructions and 
righteous laws of God. That was a celestial 
garden, a garden of Paradise, with God in their 
midst, as a "tree of life". Here he placed 
Israel, and the man he had formed. 

We read that a flaming sword was set at the 
entrance of the garden to guard the "tree of 
life". Israel with God in their midst, was a 
"tree of life" and the two years that was spent 
near Mount Hor, in setting up the ark, a flame 
of fire or light, in the form of a sword, rested 
on "Mount Hor" the "Mount of God" to guard 
Israel, who represented the "tree of life", and 
the same light rested on the ark, during all their 
journeying through the great wilderness to 
India. 

After forty years in India, Moses returned to 
Sliilo in Eden. The allegory in Genesis covers a 
long space of time, and I think that Moses re- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 191 

mained in India longer than forty years. The 
poet says, "By cool Shilo's shady rill, how sweet 
the lily grows; how sweet the breath beneath the 
rill of Sharon's dewy rose". (The lily of the 
valley). This garden was planted of the vine 
of Joseph, of whom was to come the "shepherd", 
the "Stone of Israel", "The Chief Corner Stone 
of the Lord 's Church ' ', the ' ' Cope Stone ". In the 
midst of this garden, where God dwelt spiritually 
as a "tree of life" dwelt also the descendants of 
Ham, whom Noah had cursed in prophecy as 
enemies to the God of Shem, and in speaking to 
the people of Abraham, the Lord says, "He who 
blesses Abraham of whom was Israel; him will 
I bless, and he wfio curses Abraham, him will I 
curse". 

The Cain-Hamites were enemies to Israel and 
therefore enemies to the Lord, and he destroyed 
them. They were of the "forbidden tree" and 
they dwelt in the midst of the "Garden of Eden", 
Canaan, that was given to Abraham who repre- 
sented Adam. And the Lord said to Israel (the 
man he had formed), the supplanter of Adam, 
"Eat not of the tree in the midst of the garden", 
or ' ' Bow not down to their idols to worship them ; 
defile not yourselves in any of those things, for 
in all those are the nations defiled, which I cast 
out before you". Defile not yourselves therein; 
I am the Lord your God", and the Cain-Hamites 
were cast out of this Eden, as Cain was of old, 
but a remnant was left to try Israel. 



192 IN THE BEGINNING 

And Israel, as Adam, was forbidden to worship 
idols, or commit any of the sins of the Cainites. 
But Judges 2:19 says, "They corrupted them- 
selves in following other gods, and practiced the 
vices of idolatry. 20, "And the anger of the 
Lord was hot against them and He said, 'Because 
this people has transgressed my covenant, which 
I made with and commanded their fathers, and 
have not harkened to my voice' ". 21, "I also will 
not henceforth drive out before them any of the 
nations that Joshua left". 22, "That through 
them I may prove Israel"; whether they will keep 
the way of the Lord, to walk therein as their 
fathers did". 23, "Therefore the Lord left those 
nations to prove Israel". 

They were left as a "forbidden tree", but 
Israel ate of the forbidden fruit. They com- 
mitted the sins of the tree, left in their midst. 
This garden was figurative of the "celestial gar- 
den". Now we must leave this garden and fol- 
low Moses and Aaron through the great and ter- 
rible wilderness to India. 

Moses was born of the House of Levi and as it 
was prophesied ' i that of the House of Israel would 
be born a son that would destroy Egypt". 
Pharaoh, the king, commanded "that all the male 
children of two years old and younger should be 
killed", and Moses' mother placed him in a little 
boat and hid him in the flags, and Pharaoh's 
daughter found him and on account of his beauty 
adopted him and called his name "Mosa", after 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 193 

a saurian reptile that lives in rivers. He was 
educated in all their knowledge ; he had access to 
their archives and learning. Letters were intro- 
duced about that time by one of the •'Mercuries" 
and Moses carried the knowledge and use of them 
to Persia and India. 

At that time Egypt, though enemies to God, 
was prepared to foster and nourish the ''elect, 
the church". At that time Egypt, though Cain- 
Hamites was the dominant nation and excelled all 
the other nations in learning, literature and leg- 
islation. They had a fertile country, papyrus 
and letters. They made the beautiful linen, so 
much admired; fire would not consume it. There 
the great city of ''No" was built by the Cain- 
Hamites, and was destroyed for its sins. There 
the first war on earth was fought by Cain and 
Abel and there was located the "Western Para- 
dise". I suppose that "No" and "Ur" and a 
city on the Ganges (spoken of as the oldest city 
in Hindustan) were co-existent. 

At the age of forty years Moses committed a 
murder in defense of his people and fled to Persia, 
and married the daughter of Jethro, the priest, 
and remained there forty years, and as I told you 
he was called as "Shilo" to go to Egypt and 
gather the people (Israel) and lead them out of 
bondage, and they remained nearly two years at 
Mount Hor in putting up the ark. The Persians 
placed the "Garden of Eden" on the Euphrates 
and I find by much reading that the garden was 
there at one time. 



194 IN THE BEGINNING 

The Zendavesta says, "Ormuz (God), the god 
of light informed Zoroaster (Moses) which sig- 
nifies "legislator" that in the beginning he gave, 
to man 'enedo' (Eden), the most beantifnl place 
in the world. Bnt the great serpent destroyed 

it: 

I have explained how Paradise was destroyed. 
The old serpent or beast, in the form of a man, 
seeing the happiness of Adam and Eve, sneaked 
into the garden and tempted Eve to sin by "com- 
mitting adultery", and the result was that a 
race was introduced who are a curse to man to 
this day as by their cross man fell (as a nation). 

The first Zoroaster was Moses, who taught 
genesis, law and religion to all peoples, and the 
genesis of all people agree, though couched in 
different symbols and languages. 

The ark was finished in about two years, with 
a light upon it in the form of a sword, to guide 
and guard the way* of the "tree of life" (Israel), 
and Moses and Aaron with Israel commenced 
their way through the wilderness to India. Moses 
was missionary, to the then known world. He took 
to India an army of trained men, skilled in mech- 
anism and all learning, and Hindu writers say, 
"that when the great prince (Moses) came to 
their country, he had a gem on his standard so 
bright that it lighted the country for miles 
around his camp". In India Moses was wor- 
shipped as God, or Brahma, as he represented 
"God". The priesthood were called Brahmins, 
1 i teachers of Brahma ' \ Here the root-race Israel, 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 195 

first took the name- Aryans from Aaron who 
taught them religion, cosmogony and creation. 
They took Aaron's name in contradistinction to 
idolatry. Moses represented "God", and Aaron 
represented "Christ". They were the allegorical 
church. They were called Aryans, as the church 
are now called Christians. The books in India, 
called "Vedas", are mostly from Moses' and 
Christ's teachings. 

Some writers say "that the remains of the 
buildings in India represent the high state of* their 
civilization in early time". These buildings rep- 
resent the civilization of Moses. He introduced 
the true religion and laws and built cities and 
temples, and India was as a "Garden of Eden", 
while Moses remained. Israel was to them a 
"tree of life". Before Moses commenced his 
journey to India he addressed the people thus, 
"Ascribe ye greatness to one God. He is the 
rock; his works are perfect; out of heaven he 
made thee to hear His voice, that He might in- 
struct you, and when on earth He showed thee 
his great fire, and thou heard His words out of the 
midst of it". When ye heard His voice, ye came 
near and said, "We have seen this day that God 
does talk with men and we believe". Yet they 
committed the sins and vices of idolatry. 

We see here that God does talk with men. 
And Moses and Israel represented "Adam" in 
this garden near the Euphrates, and God made a 
covenant with them. He said, "I am the Lord, 
thy God, who brought thee from Egypt, from the 



196 IN THE BEGINNING 

house of bondage". And lie made a covenant 
with this "Adam" in this garden, near Mount 
Hor. 

("Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 
Thou shalt make no graven images. Thou shalt 
not take the name of the Lord in vain. Keep the 
Sabbath day, to sanctify it. Honour thy father 
and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Neither 
shalt thou commit adultery; neither shalt thou 
steal; neither shalt thou covet".) 

The Lord commanded Israel not to marry with 
any of the inferior nations as they were of the 
forbidden fruit. The above is the part of the 
covenant for man to keep and the following is the 
promise made to man, if he kept the commands: 
"Thou, Israel, art my servant; thou are Jacob 
whom I have chosen and called from the chief 
men". "If thou keep my commands and obey 
my voice, I will be a Father to thee, and thou 
shalt be my son". "Fear not for I am with 
thee ; I will uphold thee with the right hand of my 
righteousness." "I will keep thee and give thee 
for a covenant to the people; for a light to the 
Gentiles ; I am the Lord ' \ Now, if man will keep 
the commands, God will keep his part of the 
covenant. Moses told the people "To take heed 
to themselves lest they forget the things spoken 
on Mount Hor". Yet we read that they made an 
image and worshipped it before they left the mount 
and those who worshipped it were left to die in th,e 
wilderness. The Hindus say that the Garden of 
Eden was there. Where Moses located repre- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 197 

sented the garden, but the real "Eden" was the 
land called "Canaan" afterwards. Moses' in- 
structions were mostly written in symbols and 
only the initiated could understand them. Thus 
we see that Moses was the instructor of India, and 
Israel having worked four hundred years in 
Egypt in building were "master builders". It is 
between two and three thousand years since 
Moses left India and many of the Israelites mar- 
ried with the Hindus, forming a sub-race, called 
"Indu- Aryans". 

In about forty years after Moses left Egypt, we 
find him in the old Garden of Eden, afterwards 
called "Canaan". The "great general, legisla- 
tor, prince and representative of Adam and also 
of God returned to Eden". 

You see how plain I have made the ' ' Garden of 
Eden, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel". The 
garden was located in different places at differ- 
ent times. We read in the Bible history that 
Moses left Israel in the care of Joshua, and died 
on the top of a mountain, and was buried with 
the Lord. How do we know he was buried ? He 
may have been transfigured and translated. 

When Israel left Egypt, the Egyptians fell into 
spiritual darkness until the persecutions of the 
church caused great numbers to flee to Egypt 
where they built churches and monasteries. 

A. J. Davis, the great seer, says, "Suppose 
Zoroaster did wear a flowing purple robe, trim- 
med with costly diamonds and surmounted with 
jeweled emblems and symbols of his Messiahship ; 



198 IN THE BEGINNING 

must you do the same!" That traditional Zor- 
oaster was Moses, who represented "God" to the 
people in His splendor and power, and "Aaron" 
was the allegorical "Christ". They taught the 
same religion of righteousness, called "The Wis- 
dom Religion". 

Religion don't consist in ceremonies and sym- 
bolism. A righteous man receives "spirit-bap- 
tism". If he lives in harmony with the spirit 
of "God". This chapter teaches that "God" is 
an individual and does commune with the peo- 
ple — by the spirit. 



CHAPTER (11). 

The New Testament. 

A sketch of the life of Christ with all the evi- 
dences of the Old Testament that God is the 
' ' Lord Jehovah ' ' and Christ is the ' ' Son of God ' '. 
"Jehovah" signifies "the permanent being or the 
eternal omnipotent, omniscient one", as "omni" 
signifies "the being with all power", who created 
the universe and made man in his own image, and 
taught him the true life by His word, by the 
prophets, and by the Son, who represented Him, 
and whose life and teachings are an evidence of 
the personal Father and the Son, who is a like- 
ness of the Father, and by whom the Father made 
a new covenant, which embodies the old cove- 
nant made with Israel and Adam. 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 199 

In speaking of the life of Christ, we will first 
speak of John, the revealer and writer of a part of 
Scripture, and take his evidence of the life of 
Christ, etc. John was the son of Zebidee and 
Salome, and grandson to Joseph of Aramathea. 

Theophylact says: "Joseph, the betrothed of 
Mary, had seven children by his wife before he 
was betrothed to Mary, four sons and three daugh- 
ters, Martha, Mary, Salome, the mother of John". 

As this Joseph was espoused to Mary, it is likely 
that when he found that she was chosen to fill the 
high place given by prophecy, that he never mar- 
ried her, but kept and protected her as a sister 
to his children. All writers agree on this subject 
and say, "that Mary, the mother of Christ, was 
never married". "Mary" signifies "gem of the 
sea". 

This John, having been reared in the same 
family with Christ fourteen years loved him as a 
brother. In a manuscript of the Greek Testa- 
ment, in the Imperial Libra of Verona, there is 
an account given, which agrees with the account 
given by Theophylact. 

St. Sophronous gives the same account of 
Joseph and Mary as Theophylact. John was the 
favorite disciple; he was reared with Christ; he 
saw the transfiguration; he witnessed the cruci- 
fixion; he saw the resurrection and ascension; he 
was present on the day of Pentecost and received 
the Holy Ghost. Some of the old writers say "He 
went into Parthia and preached there". His 
first epistle is sometimes addressed "The Epistle . 



200 IN THE BEGINNING 

to the Parthians". Irenus and many others 
assert "that he was a long time in Asia, nntil 
the time of Tragan, who succeeded Nerva, A. D. 

98. 

Tnrtullian says, "Domitian, having declared 
war against the church of Christ, in the fifteenth 
year of his reign. St. John was banished from 
Epirus to Some, where he was immersed in a cal- 
dron of hot oil, bnt escaped unhurt and was after- 
wards banished to Patmos, where he wrote the 
Apocalypse. 

In his first epistle general he says, ' ' That which 
was from the beginning, which we have heard, 
which we have seen, and our hands have handled 
of the word of life ' '. For the life was manifested, 
and we have seen it bear witness, and show unto 
you that eternal life, which was with the Father 
and was manifested unto us by the Son. Christ 
was not the word. 

Eternal life was manifested in Christ, our 
hands have handled the Word. Christ taught 
and represented the "Word" of God. "Eternal 
Life" was with the Father, and was manifest 
in Christ, and the "Word of God" was mani- 
fested by Him, as He says "Father, I 
have told them all the words thou gavest me to 
speak". In the above Christ acknowledges 
"God" as Father. John says, "That which we 
have seen and heard declare we unto you". They 
heard Christ teach eternal life, and saw Him 
ascend to heaven in His eternal life and they de- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 201 

clared those things to the people. The Word was 
in the beginning with God, the Word was God. 
(It was the word of God). All things were made 
by Him (God). God made all things by laws 
and wisdom. 

"The Word was made flesh", that is, the word 
was made manifest in or by the flesh, and we saw 
the flesh by which the word was made manifest, 
"which taketh away the sins of the world". Christ 
was a redeemer, not a sacrifice. Christ was sent 
to prevent sin by teaching righteousness and 
eternal life to the righteous. Christ says, "Those 
who die in their sins have death". How? By 
His death and plunging the world into darkness! 
or by His life and teaching the truth and right- 
eousness of life? According to John, the Word 
wonld take away the sins of the world. If sin was 
obliterated by His death, what need have we for 
ministers and preaching? If His death took sin 
from the earth, there is no sin, then why was He 
crucified f 

He died to save the truth, that by the truth man 
might be saved, if he lives according to the truth. 
He had to die or deny the truth and he exhorted 
His followers to hold to the truth, even, unto 
death. Not only Christ, but thousands, thous- 
ands died to save the truth. The world would 
have been idolators today if Christ had denied the 
truth, and practicing all the vices of idolatry. 
Christ was sent to enlighten and instruct man and 
elevate him to a righteous life, and a righteous 
man has eternal life. But the Jews had so much 



202 IN THE BEGINNING 

of the nature of Cain in them by crossing with 
Cain's race (the forbidden tree), that they mnst 
sacrifice Him as Cain did Abel and his race in the 
beginning and leave the world in darkness, Cain 
perpetrated the great morning sacrifice, and the 
Jews made the great evening sacrifice by destroy- 
ing the "tree of life". The two sacrifices were 
figured by Moses in the sacrifice of two lambs, one 
in the morning and one in the evening, and as by 
the death of Abel, so by the death of Christ, the 
world was left in darkness. 

Christ left a few on the earth to hold fast, and 
teach the truth. But anti-Christ, being filled 
with the same boastful nature of the kings of 
Babylon, took the throne and boasted themselves 
superior to the Most High. I will return to the 
New Testament. 

Domitian, having been slain in A. D. 96, his 
successor Nerva recalled all the Jews and St. John 
returned to Ephesus in the ninetieth year of his 
age. Jerome says, "St. John continued preach- 
ing when he was so feeble he had to be carried into 
the assembly. He is supposed to have lived for 
more than a hundred years, and some suppose he 
did not die. From that supposition Eugene 
Sue wrote his celebrated book called "The Wan- 
dering Jew ' \ 

It is said in the Testament, "That the Mother 
Mary was entrusted to the care of St. John by 
Christ while on the cross. That proves she was 
not married to Joseph or she would have remained 
with him, and it is said she lived only fifteen 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 203 

years after the crucifixion. Procurous says, 
"Some heretics poisoned a cup of wine and pre- 
sented it to him (John), but after he had prayed 
and made the sign of the cross over it, the devil 
went out in the form of a serpent". 

Eusabeous says, "Let us observe the writings 
of this apostle, which are not contradicted". 
Cerenthus, another writer of that period, says, 
"Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary, and at 
His baptism the divine nature was given in the 
form of a dove, and left Him at His death". He 
contradicts the evidence of the Father GTod and 
the Mother Mary and others. He was evidently 
ignorant of the truth. 

The gnostics, followers of "Magus" supposes 
the Supreme Being had all things in a certain 
manner within Himself, and from Him, whom 
they called "By thus" or the "Infinite", pro- 
ceeded all things and a multitute of beings, whom 
they called "Eons". As Father Grace, First-be- 
gotten, Truth, Word, Light, Man, etc., and all 
these merged into what they called "fullness of 
being". In this way they gave being to the sup- 
posed attributes of the deity. The ignorance of 
such writers is the cause of the contradictions and 
obscure teachings of some parts of the Bible. 

St. Luke says, "Forasmuch as many have 
taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration 
of those things which are most surely believed 
among us, which from the beginning were eye- 
witnesses and ministers of the word". 3d verse. 
"It seemed good to me also, and having had perfect 



204 IN THE BEGINNING 

knowledge of all tilings from the beginning, to 
write nnto thee in order, most excelent Theoph- 
oles." 8th verse, "That thou mightest know the 
certainty of those things wherein thou hast been 
instructed". 

He says, "Ministers of the Word". What 
word? The word of God; the Word or instruc- 
tions given to the Son by the Father. God did 
not commune by writing only occasionally; he 
communed by word or by the voice of the spirit 
which is omnipresent. Christ was not the 
"Word". He heard the words of the Father and 
repeated them to the people. God communed 
with the prophets and they repeated His words to 
the people. (God communed with me by word, by 
writing, by impression and by inspiration). 
Logus signifies "word". It is not a being. 
Word is not a being. Christ was with the Father 
from the beginning as a possibility, not as a 
being. Christ represented God on the earth. 

Luke says, "There was in the days of Herod, 
the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zacha- 
riah, of the course of Ahia, and his wife was of 
the daughters of Aaron. Her name was Eliza- 
beth, and they had no children, and while he was 
offering in the Priests ' office, there appeared 
unto him an angel spirit of the Lord and 
said, ' l Labor not, thy prayer is heard. Thy wife, 
Elizabeth, shall bear a son and thou shalt call his 
name John and many shall rejoice at his birth, 
for he shall be great in the eyes of the Lord and 
be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his 



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birth". 17th verse, "And lie shall go before Him 
in the spirit and power of Elias (to turn the 
hearts of the obedient to the wisdom of the just) 
to make ready a people for the Lord". Zachariah 
was made dumb until the child was born. 26th 
verse, "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel 
was sent to Galilee, named Nazareth". 27th 
verse, "To a virgin espoused to a man called 
Joseph of the house of David and the virgin's 
name was Mary and she was of the house of 
David". 28th verse, "And the angel said, 'Hail! 
thou highly favored, the Lord is with thee. 
Blessed art thou among women'. And she was 
troubled at his saying". 30th verse, "And the 
angel said "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found 
favor witlfGod.' " 31st verse, "And behold, thou 
shalt conceive and bring forth a son and call his 
name Jesus". 32d verse, "He shall be great and 
shall be called 'The Son of the Most High'. And 
the Lord shall give unto him the throne of his 
father David". 33d verse, "And he shall reign 
over the house of Jacob forever and of his king- 
dom there shall be no end". Then said Mary, 
"How shall this be seeing I know not a man?" 
25th verse, The angel said, ' ' The Holy Ghost shall 
come upon thee and the power of the Most High 
shall overshadow thee; therefore, the 'Holy 
Thing' born of thee shall be called 'the Son of 
God' and thy cousin Elizabeth will also bear a 
son (for with God nothing is impossible) ". 38th 
verse, And Mary said, "Behold the handmaid of 



206 IN THE BEGINNING 

the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy 
word". And the angel departed from her. 39th 
verse, And Mary arose and went to the city of 
Judea, etc", There is an evidence that Christ is 
the "Son of God" (and I was shown and tanght 
the conception of Christ, that He is the "Son of 
God" and the above statement is true) . 

How astonishing it is to see commentators write 
in this manner. "Perhaps few questions have 
given more trouble to the learned than that which 
concerns the genealogy of our blessed Lord as 
given by Luke and Matthew". Matthew had his 
knowledge only from hearsay and we are not 
obliged to accept it. But Luke's testimony is 
convincing, and as the "Mother Mary" was «of 
the House of David, we have the genealogy of 
Jesus by the Mother (as descended from David, 
and the "Most High" being the Father). Ac- 
cording to the written history in our Testament, 
Christ was conceived of the "Holy Ghost" and 
the Virgin Mary and begotten by the Most High. 
There is His lineage. The Son of God, and the 
lineage of David by His mother Mary. The Holy 
Spirit is the female side of God. A power that we 
don't understand. 

When John was born they called his name John, 
according to instructions. "John" signifies 
"joined to", as by baptism man is joined to the 
church. John's baptism was figurative of the 
"spiritual baptism". It was a visible pledge of 
the covenant to live a righteotfs life. Still Moses 
had a code of laws called "ceremonial". They 



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were figurative. In the beginning man was 
taught to sacrifice animals and eat the flesh and 
give thanks. Some of the sacrifices were figura- 
tive. 

Abel was called a "Shepherd" and his tribe was 
compared to sheep for their gentleness. The 
Lamb, sacrificed in the morning by Israel was fig- 
urative of the great sacrifice of Abel's tribe in 
the "Morning of Time", and the Lamb sacrificed 
in the evening was figurative of the great sacri- 
fice that would take place in the evening of that 
church established with Abel until Christ. Abel 
was perfect, (Christ was the resurrection of the 
perfect man), and called the "Shepherd", and 
Israel were called u Sheep". The lamb sacrificed 
in the evening by Israel was figurative of the 
great sacrifice that would take place in the even- 
ing of that church. Christ, the "Shepherd" and 
thousands and thousands of his flock were sacri- 
ficed to keep the truth; without the truth the 
earth would be in darkness. 

Christ was not sent down from heaven; He was 
begotten and born on the earth, and was sent out 
to teach righteousness, eternal life and that the 
kingdom of heaven had come down to men, and 
that He represented and stood on the earth as 
God or in his stead. He says, "I am the law and 
the prophets". He had the power to redeem 
man to his original conditions of purity and im- 
mortality. (If man obeys his teachings and lives 
a "righteous life".) Without righteousness man 



208 IN THE BEGINNING 

can not enter heaven. Christ says, "I am the law 
and the prophets". He filled all law by a right- 
eons life, and pnt away all ceremony, even that of 
baptism. If we accept His baptism and live 
pnre, righteons lives, for snch there is not and 
can not be any condemnation. By righteousness 
and His "Christ's" baptism, we are consecrated 
to God and immortality. Bnt we can make 
a public acknowledgement of consecration by 
sprinkling or immersion— if we want to. 

Christ came to instruct and redeem man to his 
original pure condition and immortal life; but by 
the old serpent-nature in man, they destroyed, 
1 ' sacrificed ' ' the ' ' tree of life ' ' as did Cain in the 
beginning and left the earth in darkness and the 
shadow of death and anti-Christ held not only 
men's lives, but the souls of men, under his feet. 

Christ taught that by repentance and a right- 
eous life man was redeemed and made a public 
confession by baptism. John went into the wil- 
derness, teaching repentance and righteousness. 
If any person wishes to learn of the birth, life, 
death and resurrection of Christ, they can find it 
in our Testament and I have been made a wit- 
ness to the conception, birth, life, crucifixion, 
burial and resurrection of Christ and my witness 
is true. By a glance. 

Some writers say "that Christ went to India to 
receive instructions". Being the Son of God what 
need had He of instructions from men? That 
He was in India is evident from circumstances 
and the writing of Hindus and others, and when 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 209 

He told His mother He must be about His Father's 
business, he went to India to instruct the people... 
The Hindus call Him "Christna", and speak of 
the divine morale taught by Him, and of His 
celestial birth and second coming. He was in 
India until over thirty years old, teaching, when 
He returned to Judea. Our Bible history gives 
no account of Him after the age of twelve, until 
He returned from the wilderness, following John. 

At the baptism of Christ, He said to John, ' ' Let 
it be so now that by 'us' may be filled all right- 
eousness". John signifies "to. join" Christ, by 
joining in the water-baptism filled and put away 
all ceremonial and required only a righteous life. 
Christ stood on the earth as God, as He says, "I 
am God". He represented God to the people. 

Every fact proves that India and all peoples 
received laws and religion from Moses and 
Christ. 

While most of those nations, descendants of 
Cain, crossed with Shem, have retrograded, we, 
of the race of Shem, by joining hands with Japhet, 
the enterprising race, have steadily progressed. 

Nearly three thousand years after Moses and 
Israel gave laws and religion to India, Persia, 
Syria, Egypt, etc., we find the Baptist teaching in 
the same great wilderness. "Prepare ye the way 
of the Lord, make His paths straight". For the 
real Christ of the allegory represented by Moses 
and Aaron is at hand; and the voice of one cry- 
ing in the wilderness, make His paths straight. 
Christ taught fourteen years in India and they 



210 IN THE BEGINNING 

look for His return soon to overcome the "Rag- 
shas" or evil spirits and all unrighteousness. 

Matthew says, "Now, when Jesus was born in 
Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod, the 
king, behold there came wise men from the East". 
All the men east o£ the Euphrates were called 
"Kedem or Wise Men" from their knowledge of 
astronomy and the esoteric. 

Revelation, Chapter 12:1, says, "And there 
appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman, 
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her 
feet; and upon her head a crown of twelve stars". 
That woman was Mary, the mother of Christ, and 
the heaven in the vision was the church, in the 
midst of which was the power of the Father. It 
was heaven (it was heaven in effect) as the Father 
abode with them, and the Son was born in their 
midst. 

The woman seen by John clothed with the sun, 
was Mary. She was clothed with celestial beauty 
and brightness, being the mother of Jesus, who 
was the "Star of Bethlehem", "The Light of 
God" as represented by Israel. "And the moon 
was under her feet". The church of the Levite, 
though first, was only a reflex of the church of 
Christ, that was to come, as the light of the moon 
is only a reflex of the sun. And as the light 
arose in the birth of Christ, the old church was 
put away or under the feet of the woman, who 
represented the new church. And she being with 
child- and near its birth another wonder appeared 
in heaven: "A great red dragon having seven 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 211 

heads and ten horns and crowns npon his head". 

The "Great Ked Dragon" was the kingdom of 
Babylon, which sat in the midst of the waters or 
nations, and did destroy them and hold them in 
idolatry, as the l c Prince of the powers of darkness 
or darkened nations ' '. His seven heads were seven 
kingdoms, and the ten horns were also kingdoms 
to arise from Babylon as told by David, and his 
tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven after 
him and did cast them down to the earth". 

By idolatry and its attendent vices, a third part 
of Israel, who represented heaven and was called 
"The stars of God", were drawn after the dragon 
and cast down to the earth by idolatry and its 
vices. This allegory also covers Ham, Shem and 
Japhet, as I have explained, who came into the 
church or heaven of Israel. Bnt Ham crossed 
with Cain's race, and fell to the earth of idolatry. 

Isaiah says, "0, Lncifer, (Nebuchadnezzar) (a 
Cain-Hamite) how thou art fallen from heaven". 
Ham represented a third of those redeemed from 
the flood. 

"And the dragon stood before the woman to 
devour the child". Herod was a Cain-Hamite, 
and represented the dragon and we read in 
Matthew that he wished to know where the child 
was that he might destroy him. But the woman 
with Joseph and the child fled into the wilderness, 
Egypt, till Herod was dead. When Herod found 
he was mocked by the Wise Men, he sent and de- 
stroyed the children under two years old, in 
"Rama". The Herod who destroyed the chil- 



212 IN THE BEGINNING 

dren in Egypt in the time of Moses was a Cain- 
Hamite. "In those days came John, the Baptist, 
preaching in the wilderness of Judea, say- 
ing, 'Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at 
hand' ". 

The kingdom of heaven had come to the earth 
(figurative; the church represented heaven and 
Christ represented God in that kingdom on earth) 
and Christ represented "God" on the earth; 
and the evil man could not enter that heaven 
unless he repented and was cleansed by baptism 
as a pledge that he would keep the covenant made 
with the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, that 
he would live a pure and righteous life. 

I have explained that the sin of disobedience 
was punished by the flood, but the sin of adultery, 
causing the fall, could not be atoned for and the 
race could be redeemed only by instructions and 
reincarnation or spiritual baptism, as I have ex- 
plained. And those people, not having kept the 
covenant and commands must be cleansed by bap- 
tism. 

John says, "He who comes after me will baptize 
you with the Holy Ghost and will thoroughly 
purge this floor, and will gather his wheat into a 
garner and burn the chaff". Then came Jesus 
from Galilee and wished to be baptized, but John 
refused, and Jesus said, "Suffer it to be so now, 
for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteous- 
ness". By baptism, Christ filled all law and cer- 
emonial. Being a Jew he was circumcised for the 
Jew; being the new church of Israel, he received 



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the sacrament of baptism, making null the cere- 
monial law, renouncing all ceremony and law, ex- 
cept that of righteousness. He became the altar, 
the sacrifice and high priest, making null the cere- 
monial sacrifices. Being born of the flesh He rep- 
resented the perfect man, and being born of the 
Holy Ghost, He redeems man to a spiritual life 
and immortality by a spiritual baptism if they 
keep the law of righteousness, as without right- 
eousness no one can enter heaven. 

The ceremonial baptism was for that genera- 
tion, as I have explained. "Now," he says, 
"having filled the law, be ye perfect as your 
Father in heaven is perfect". Be perfect in 
righteousness, not in ceremonial. We must be 
polished stones. As the stones for Solomon's 
temple were hewn and polished in the wilderness, 
then conveyed to the place prepared for the temple 
by the Lord, and Israel was polished by 400 years 
in the wilderness of Egypt, then taken to the 
promised land, and formed into a temple, of 
which Solomon was a type, so must we be polished 
stones, hewn and polished in the wilderness of the 
world; as none but polished stones can enter into 
the heavenly temple of which Christ is the chief 
corner stone and the Father is the Master Builder, 
the "Koyal Arch". 

Christ says, ' l Seek ye first the kingdom of God 
and His righteousness, and all these things shall 
be added unto you". All those glorious things I 
have shown you in the heavenly spheres. Christ 



214 IN THE BEGINNING 

taught that the kingdom of heaven was come 
down to men. 

Peter established the church at Borne, and as 
Borne became the head of the church, they com- 
pelled all nations to take the name of Catholic 
Christians, which was the true name. Paul was 
called to teach the Gentiles. Many persons do 
not believe the Bible teachings, but we go to the 
East and find evidences in the Bed Sea, the Medi- 
terranean, the Euphrates, the Monuments of 
Egypt, the remains of Babel or Babylon. But we 
still wait for the filling of the prophecies. Though 
Christ is here with great power and the nations 
are brought into the judgment, preparatory to the 
"Day of the Lord". 

With all the spiritual manifestations that have 
taken place on the earth these last fifty years 
before them, the people, the church, the nations 
stand like blocks without understanding, deaf and 
dumb and blind. 

A "word" from God was the first evidence to 
man that there was a being of power or spiritual 
life. The term "Logus" or "Word" signifies 
"without voice", a spirit voice, hence John ex- 
plains, "The Word was with God or of God". 
God was not mute, God communed with the 
prophets by "Word"; God communed with me 
by "word"; God has been communicating with 
men and they do not see the power and glory on 
the earth at this time. By the word given to 
Christ, God was made manifest. The word of the 
Old Testament was given to the prophets by a 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 215 

still spirit voice. But the word of the New Testa- 
ment was given orally by the voice of Christ as 
he represented "God". 

John says, "As many as received Him, gave 
He power to become the 'Sons of God' ". Even 
those who believed His name, born of God, of the 
Spirit. 

"The law commands came by Moses, bnt grace 
came by Jesus Christ". The law and the cove- 
nant was for those people, for those people, for by 
keeping them (the law) they had the same grace, 
and the grace given to these people does not de- 
stroy the law and the covenant (commands). 
Christ says, "I am the law and the prophets". 
Those who receive Him (Christ) and His teach- 
ings, live in the law (righteousness of life) as He 
filled all the law in His life (and by living a right- 
eous life we accept Christ and his baptism) 
whether we connect with the visible church or not. 

Without righteousness of life, ye make grace 
void, as no one can enter heaven but the perfect in 
righteousness. Those who accept Christ and His 
righteousness, without keeping the commands, are 
mockers. The "Bag-a-vad-geta," one of the 
oldest writings, says: "The righteous man be- 
comes "God-like" and attains the kingdom of 
heaven, even before the death of the body". And 
Paul says, ("For those who possess 'God-like' at- 
tributes, there is no law.") The old writing says, 
' ' The unwise are guilty of suicide, by casting out 
the spirit of righteousness. They commit suicide 
and must wander in the utter gloom of unrest. 



216 IN THE BEGINNING 

Sunless are those spheres, wrapped up in blind- 
ing gloom and darkness, whither repair those who 
by unrightousness destroy self. Death is certain 
to those who are born, and rebirth from the dead 
body is also certain, "A spiritual body". The 
truly enlightened rests in the supreme atmosphere 
of heaven, renouncing all ceremony . 

Christ says, "It is the Father's will that sent 
me, that I lose nothing that He gave me, but 
should raise it up at the last day. Every man that 
hath learned of the Father, cometh to me. I am 
the living bread that came down from heaven and 
the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the 
world". He would suffer death, that they might 
be convinced of immortality. A word said to me 
more than twenty years ago, "The son's 
glory will not be complete till the 
earth is glorified by Him, Christ". If 
the world had received Christ as the re- 
deemer of man and the representative of God he 
would not have been crucified. Christ was com- 
pelled to leave the earth. He told them, "I will 
send the spirit," who will be my witness. Christ 
sent the spirit, as representative. 

Baptism was the seal of the convenant of right- 
eousness, and Christ sealed the covenant for all, by 
water and His own blood to convince them of life. 
Then man is not under the law ; He is redeemed by 
or through the grace of the Father, by the Son, if 
lie (man) keeps the law of righteousness. But 
Christ says, if a person sins, "Bepent ye, and be 
baptized with the water of repentance ' '. For hav- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 217 

ing sinned he comes under the law of condemna- 
tion. But if he repent and keep the law of the 
covenant, he is redeemed by the same grace. But 
to whom must we repent, to the minister! No. 
To the Father and receive the baptism of the 
"Holy Ghost" or spirit from the High Priest, 
Christ, who stands before the throne, figuratively. 

Any person, wishing to connect with the visible 
church, who has not sinned, can do so by the bap- 
tism of consecration. If a person lives a pure life, 
if he is a member of the invisible church, by the 
baptism of Christ. The churches are not in ac- 
cordance with the teaching of Christ. The pres- 
ent system of sectarianism is burdensome and pro- 
duces inharmonious feelings in the people. Can a 
person become a member of the visible church 
without becoming a sectarian? Christ set the peo- 
ple free ; we are under no law but the law of right- 
eousness and righteousness is "Life eternal". 

The church puts a yoke on our necks. Any per- 
son outside of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiast is 
called an "infidel," thus making the rule of the 
ecclesiast superior to the "baptism of Christ." 
Many persons, not knowing that Christ was bap- 
tized for them, continue to sin, as they consider 
that they are not responsible to the law. But by 
living pure and just, in the baptism of Christ, 
you may be heirs to the kingdom of a glorious 
heaven. Let not sin deprive you of your inheri- 
tance. Christ said, "Come to me". Many will 
say, "How"? By putting away all sin you will 
receive the baptism of the spirit. He is already 



218 IN THE BEGINNING 

"sealed" as a member of the "invisible church". 

Persons should be taught that they are re- 
deemed and baptized in the baptism of Christ, and 
if they live pure and righteous lives, they are heirs 
to the kingdom of heaven; and being redeemed 
they are responsible to Christ, who redeemed 
them. Therefore, if they keep the law of the cove- 
nant (commands), they are free under grace, ahcT 
as Christ says, "have passed from death unto 
life," and become sons and daughters by being 
loyal to Christ. 

Some persons require connection with the vis- 
ible church as a safeguard. It is a means of 
awakening thought to a practical comprehension 
of religion if they are properly instructed. Why 
do not the ministers teach "Free Grace," to those 
who have not sinned, and to those who have 
sinned, if they put away sin and accept the bap- 
tism of Christ, by the seal of consecration? 

If we accept the baptism of Christ and keep 
the covenant (commands), we enter into His right- 
eousness and become One in principle, as He 
says, "I am the resurrection". As Christ filled 
all the laws, we are set free and only require to 
live a righteous life, and being baptized with the 
"Holy Spirit" we are in the Kingdom of Christ 
and heirs to immortality. 

Man is a "Triune"; he is between the animal 
and the spirit- world ; both natures meet in him 
and in harmony with their own laws; each labors 
to obtain supremacy. In his physical constitution, 
man and the animal are one ; but in his brain or- 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 219 

ganization and spirit-energy, which fills his nerves 
and informs his reason, man is on the spiritual- 
plane; animals are on the physical plane only. 

The cerebellum and oblongata are the lever and 
fulcrum by which the vital principles are lifted 
and pushed forward in the common functions of 
life in animals as well as men. But the cerebrum 
and corpuscollosum, neither of which are found in 
animals, are the spirit-lever and fulcrum which 
exalts man to consciousness of spiritual things and 
immortality. Yet, how animal nature clings to 
life. The law of life is an eternal principle. Man's 
moral attributes contain the sanitary laws of life 
and happiness, and a transgression of those laws 
produces unhappiness. Eeason exalts man above, 
and a want of it degrades him below the animal 
consciousness. (When the animal, intellectual and 
spiritual man harmoniously blend, the spirit-man 
rules like a king and man lives on the intellectual- 
spiritual plane, at the same time enjoying the 
physical.) To be perfect, the triune must har- 
monize and elevate the animal nature to the spir- 
itual plane. As by crossing with the beast, man 
took on the evil nature of the beast, by reason he 
must subdue the beast to the high spirit-nature 
of the man. 

A writer says, l ' Of all the wonders, the greatest 
is the human mind. It presents at once the great- 
est variety and unity. Its attributes, complexity, 
mobility, sensibility, profundity, imponderability, 
solidity and its wondrous proportions of essences 
and organs,. adapted- to fill the higher purposes of 



220 IN THE BEGINNING 

life, constitute realities and perfections that tran- 
scend the power of comprehension". In the hu- 
man body those invisible wonders are made mani- 
fest in its anatomy, physiology, organs, vitality 
and powers; hence, the true. man is indestructible 
spiritually. To perfect and harmonize this won- 
drous detail of beauty, personal progress is neces- 
sary. Man is composed of mind, body and spirit 
or soul, and to accomplish his immortality he 
must be purified and beautified to an infinite de- 
gree. 

If Christ had remained on the earth these two 
thousand years, teaching and baptizing or re-in- 
carnating the Holy Spirit that was lost by the fall, 
what would have been the condition of man ? 

A voice said to me, "Christ's glory will not be 
complete until the earth (man) is glorified by 
Him," then the Church led by Him will triumph 
in His glory. 



NOTES, 



If Christ had not been crucified, but left to heal 
the sick and teach the truth and restore the spirit 
of immortality (lost by the fall), the earth would 
have been like a heaven at this time, instead of 
slaughtering each other by thousands like wild 
beasts. 

Christ 's mission on earth was to redeem man by 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 221 

instruction and re-incarnation of the spirit of im- 
mortality, lost by the fall. 

This period of time is a " Day of Judgment, ' ' a 
"Day of Redemption and Resurrection". 

"Church" signifies "High," "Holy," "Called 
or Chosen". The first church was called in Abel, 
the first Prophet, etc. The second church was 
called in "Israel," "The Light of God," as 
"Jacob, My Called, etc." Moses and Aaron, with 
the attendant spirit, represented the Trinity and 
were chosen to lead Israel from bondage and in- 
struct them in righteousness and the commands 
given to him by the Father. 

The Lord said unto Moses, "Speak to Israel and 
say, 'There will a Redeemer arise, and when he 
comes hear and obey all he tells you,' and Moses 
said to Israel, 'There will a Redeemer arise, like 
unto me; hear and obey him'." When Moses went 
into the "Holy of Holies" he represented God as 
I told you. But Israel was so degenerated that 
when Christ the "Redeemer" came they would 
not receive him as the Son, and representative of 
"God". They mocked and murdered the ambas- 
sador of the "Most High God". Moses led the 
"Archetypal" church, and Christ established the 
third church; but "Anti-Christ" took possession. 
A "word" said to me, "There will be one more 
church; when the fourth church comes 'twill be 
the last (one fold and one shepherd). 

The church established by the Christ represent- 
ed "Heaven" and He the son and representative 
was sent to instruct and prepare the people, etc., 



222 IN THE BEGINNING 

as Moses told them lie would, and that the 
"God" and Moses, and the religion of the world 
"spiritually". But Israel had almost forgotten 
"God" and Moses; and the religion of the world 
consisted in ceremonies, mostly made to idols; a 
true knowledge of "God" and righteousness was 
nearly lost on the earth; and Christ was sent to 
teach the truth and restore the knowledge, and 
re-incarnate the Spirit of Life, and to warn the 
people of the great destruction that was coming 
to the earth, either as a necessity of the creative 
laws or a punishment. "Both." 

Christ warned them to secure "Immortality" 
by righteous lives, and have faith in Him and His 
teaching, as the obedient would receive the ' ' Bap- 
tism of Grace". 

A word said to me, "Christ was baptized for 
all men". Then let whosoever will put away all 
manner of sin and receive the ' ' Baptism of Grace ' ' 
and become one with Christ in harmony and righ- 
teousness ; as none but the perfect in righteousness 
can enter "Heaven". 

As many persons don't believe in an individual 
" God " and a local ' ' Heaven, ' ' I have been shown 
a glimpse of the "Heavenly realms," and the 
throne, with a glorious "Being" on the "throne," 
as I have described them; that I might write and 
tell the people of the truth, as I am a living wit- 
ness. 

On the chart, the central, "spiritual sun," the 
"Holy of Holies," occupies a vast space; and the 
"Throne," the sixth sphere outside of that is 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 223 

the vast territory called "Heaven". Christ's 
"Throne" is on the right hand. This territory is 
boundless and contains worlds, kingdoms, princi- 
palities, power, grand "palaces," dwellings, etc. 
Here the redeemed will enter according to his 
degree, and none but the "redeemed and pure" 
can enter there. 

The light of the great central, spiritual "sun" 
is the essence of love, purity, wisdom and power; 
and is the life of the inhabitants of the sixth 
sphere, and ' ' Heaven, ' ' the kingdom of ' ' Christ, ' ' 
is subject to the "Father". 

As the righteous require a place of residence, 
so do the unrighteous and evil require a place. 
The "Pit" on the chart is represented by a vast 
wilderness, chained in darkness, unpenetrated by 
the "Light" of the "great central, spiritual Sun". 

In the time of Christ the world was buried in 
idolatrous darkness, and many of the idolaters 
received his teachings as a new superstition, and 
placed his "Image" with their "Idols". But 
Constantine conquered the Eoman world and con- 
nected Church and state; and idolatry was mostly 
abandoned. But they had not a true idea of 
"God" and religion. And history says, "That 
ninety-seven years after Christ, when St. John's 
gospel was handed in, the church disputed over 
the "Logus" many years. And by misunder- 
standing, St. John's description of the "Logus" 
or ' ' Word ' ' much unbelief and harm has been done 
to the "religious" idea. As St. John appeared 
to me, and gave me the sacrament figuratively, I 



224 IN THE BEGINNING 

think he is willing that I explain the "Word" 
(given in his gospel) in accord with a description 
of the " Beginning" given to me by a "Word". 

In the beginning the "Spirit" was, and in per- 
fecting "Form" was produced, and the "Spirit" 
and the "Form" were the perfect, perfect "One" 
(God, made manifest in the "Form") and "Le 
Bible 1 'India" says: "In speaking of the begin- 
ning, 'Spirit' mysterious, Force immense, power 
immeasurable". How was your life manifested 
before creation! By revelation and reading the 
genesis of most peoples, we find that they all cor- 
respond, in fact. The description as given to me, 
and the description as given in Le Bible l'lndia, 
and the description as given by St. John, do cor- 
respond. (The three descriptions.) 

Before creation the omnipresent spirit and 
cosmic substances were co-eternal and contained 
the possibility of all things. (Father, Mother, 
Spirit): God was made manifest by a glorious 
spiritual being, as I have explained, whose 
"word" was and is transmitted by the "spirit" 
(telephonic). By reading St. John's Gospel care- 
fully, we find that his description of the beginning 
agrees with the idea given in Le Bible l'lndia, 
and the beginning as given to me, by a "word" 
or "spirit voice," audible only to the spirit con- 
sciousness. Paul says : ' ' There is a material body 
and a spiritual body. ' ' The material body is sub- 
ject to decomposition, but the spirit body is eter- 
nal, and Paul says: "Flesh and blood can't enter 
Heaven. ' ' 



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Matthew, Mark and Luke don't speak of the 
"Beginning of Creation" in their Gospels, and as 
St. John appeared to me*some years ago and gave 
me the sacrament, a glass of water and a cracker, 
(figuratively) I think he is willing to let me ex- 
plain his description of the "Beginning". 

St. John says: "In the beginning was the word. 
As there was no word spoken previous to "Form," 
(God made manifest) whose "Word" was from 
the beginning, He (God) made or created all 
things by his power and the action of the omni- 
present spirit. 

Science and Revelations say "That creation 
commenced millions of years before Christ was 
born," and our Bible record says "That man was 
placed on the earth six thousand years ago, and 
that man fell and became so sinful that a Redeem- 
er was necessary"; a representative with knowl- 
edge and power, etc. Now we read in the Bible, 
"That a 'Word' came to Isaiah or someone else". 
God being a "Spiritual Being" his "Word" was 
communicated to them by the omnipresent Spirit, 
and only those spiritually developed could hear 
the voice of the Spirit. Many millions of years 
after creation commenced, and four thousand after 
that, man was created, and, according to St. Luke, 
a woman of the pure race was chosen to become 
the mother of Jesus — and the angel said to Mary 
— "He shall be great, and of his kingdom there 
shall be no end". "The Holy Ghost shall come 
upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall 
overshadow thee," etc. Therefore, Jesus, the 



226 IN THE BEGINNING 

Christ, is the Son of God, and being the Son of 
God, inherited the divine nature and eternal life; 
and being the ' ' Son of Man, ' ' by his mother Mary, 
he became a "Divine Man". He was not the 
"Word," bnt being the Son of God and Man, he 
was a "Medium, " and communicated the "word" 
of God to "Men". The word given to the Proph- 
ets and others was communicated by the "omni- 
present spirit". But as the Being that we call 
God, was produced or born of the "Father-Moth- 
er-Spirit," and Christ was begotten by the power 
of the Most High, and born of the Holy Ghost or 
Spirit, He is' one in substance with the Father, 
and the pure flesh added makes him the Son of 
Man. But Christ did not create the world; God 
created the world thousands of years before 
Christ was borm But the people had become so 
degenerated and fallen by evil practices and cross- 
ing with the fallen races, that they could not - re- 
ceive or understand spiritual communications, and 
would not heed the Prophets that 'twas necessary 
to send One with power and knowledge, (as a 
representative of God) as a Medium between God 
and man, to redeem them by instructing them in 
the truth, and restoring the "Holy Spirit" (eter- 
nal life) as without redemption man would be lost 
as men and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven 
and Eternal Life. Therefore, Christ being the 
Son of God, and inheriting the Divine Nature and 
attributes, could not communicate with or become 
visible to man unless He was born of the flesh; 
also, therefore, by the "Power" of God, He was 



A BOOK FOR THE NEW ERA 227 

born of the flesh also, as medium between God 
and man, to communicate the "Word" of "God" 
to man — as God being a spiritual being, they could 
not see or hear Him — and many persons through 
ignorance suppose that Christ is God. 

St. John says: "Whereby receive we the Love 
of God, because He laid down his Life for us". 
The above looks like a mistake somewhere. As 
God was, and is, the Life of all Life from eternity, 
and Creator of all things, 'twere impossible for 
Him to die, and as Christ is the Son of God, He 
inherits Eternal Life, but as He is also the Son 
of man, he was subject to temporary death. I 
don't find any other passage in the Bible saying 
that "God laid down his life for us," and I think 
this one must be a mistake. 

Scientists and Revelations say that man was 
created on a high spiritual plane, and that by 
crossing with animals and mongrel races the ma- 
jority of men fell to the animal plane. Christ was 
the Son of man by his mother, who was descended 
from the pure race, and the kingdoms of this 
earth were given to Him, as their Redeemer, and 
His Throne is represented on the chart as on the 
right hand of the "central spiritual sun". Once 
I saw Christ in my room, enveloped in a light gray 
cloud (as I have explained). Another time I saw 
Him standing on an elevated alcove, formed by 
drapery, enclosing a large space. He was clothed 
in a robe of changeable colors, reaching to his 
feet, with loose sleeves showing the hands, that 
hung by his sides, and the pose of his whole posi- 



228 IN THE BEGINNING 

tion was dignified and graceful, as if he had just 
stepped out to address an audience. His hands 
and complexion were fair and looked substantial, 
though not solid as flesh, with a slight pink glow 
on the cheeks, with dark blue eyes and dark hair. 

To the people, Christ represented the Father, 
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and the perfect, 
Divine-Man. 

Science and Revelations say that there is mil- 
lions of worlds, but we are not told of their cir- 
cumstances or inhabitants. But Revelations say 
"that at the end of this Kalpa, when all the re- 
deemed are gathered into the beautiful Realms of 
Heaven, a new creation will commence on a higher 
plane," as I have told you and explained in this 
Book. 

History. Some time after Christ, the Christians, 
Jews, Idolaters, Heathen and different sects, per- 
secuted, tortured and massacred thousands to 
death, and three or four hundred years after 
Christ the whole Roman world was shook up by 
an earthquake, and many thousands of lives were 
lost. Most of the known world was shaken by 
earthquakes, and many parts destroyed. Christ 
warned the people of those days. 

Revelations. The Revelations of St. John com- 
mence this way: "The Revelations of Jesus 
Christ, which God gave unto him and he (Christ) 
sent, and signified it by his Angel unto his serv- 
ant John." We see here that Christ was not the 
"Word". He received the Word from God and 
communicated it to John by the Spirit, and John 



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wrote it to the churches. We see that Christ- was 
not the ' * Word, ' ' but a medium for the i ' Word, ' ' 
and that the "Word" from the beginning was 
communicated, in most cases, by the omnipresent 
Spirit. 

Christ was given the kingdoms of this world 
as their Eedeemer, and represents a Trinity. His 
Throne is on the right hand of the Great Central 
Sun. 



MY SEAL IS ON THIS BOOK. 
I Am That I Am. 

Are the people, are the churches, ready for the 
great "Day" that is dawning! I was awoke one 
night by hearing a Lond Voice say: "The day of 
the Lord is at hand, ' ' and I saw an Angel, with a 
trumpet in his hand, passing swiftly over the 
earth, proclaiming as he went, "The Day of the 
Lord is at hand". 

1 ' The Father and Son and Holy Spirit do glorify 
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